WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable • Hacker News Board

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by RaphiePS » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 12:20 PM UTC

sendtopms wrote: post #13

marshray wrote: post #4

The docs say "Note that the server is only for brokering connections and does not proxy data between peers." So what browser API does the PeerJS use to exchange data with something other than a server, particularly another browser? Is this it? https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jesup-rtcweb-data-protocol...

I tried disconnecting the wifi after couple of messages. It is not working. It needs server always it seems. senthil, http://mocdoc.in

Just to clear up any misunderstanding, are you trying this on two laptops on your home network?

If so, you still need wifi for the connection between them, The cool thing about PeerJS is that the data goes directly between the computers (A B) without a server in between (A S B).

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by VikingCoder » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 2:12 PM UTC

I get no text in the blue box, but my Chrome is past the required version...

Your browser version: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31

Currently Google Chrome 26.0.1403.0 or above is required.

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by marshray » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 11:27 PM UTC

ericz wrote: post #8

marshray wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

8. Security Considerations To be done. :-(

One nice thing is that all data channels are encrypted DTLS by default

How do the endpoints authenticate each other?

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by samg » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 1:38 AM UTC

bbarrows wrote: post #2

Must stay up all night and develop first DataChannel based P2P BitTorrent style file sharing implementation tonight..

check out http://peercdn.com

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by dveditz » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 7:56 PM UTC

dbaupp wrote: post #9

hazelcough wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Make haste! People on Canary had a head start :P. Also note that currently DataChannels do not support reliable transfer and have a small MTU, so sending enormous files does not yet work. With PeerJS you can send smaller files, but larger ones will take an unreasonable amount of time.

And it's been in Firefox for a while too. (Nightly only, maybe?)

It is currently enabled in nightly (Fx22) and Aurora (fx21). No promises it won't get turned off in Fx21 before ship but that appears to be the current target release.

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by sendtopms » Fri, Mar 29, 2013, 3:25 AM UTC

RaphiePS wrote: post #21

sendtopms wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried disconnecting the wifi after couple of messages. It is not working. It needs server always it seems. senthil, http://mocdoc.in

Just to clear up any misunderstanding, are you trying this on two laptops on your home network? If so, you still need wifi for the connection between them, The cool thing about PeerJS is that the data goes directly between the computers (A B) without a server in between (A S B).

No, in a single laptop with two different tabs of chrome browser.