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PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC

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Re: PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC

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Post by piranha »

phaer wrote: post #14
headgasket wrote: post #10

Quite interesting idea. On this we could have a distributed web server that scales as new ppl load the (site??). I can see this hurting akamai. People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable; even before widespread FTOH this could become potent. It would also simplify a Tor alternative implementation, would'nt it?

> People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable; Are you talking about the bay area? I have never seen such an connection in a private home. (central and southern europe)

Here in Ukraine that's pretty common. I have 60 mbps for 9$/m, and that is quite normal in Kyiv.

Re: PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC

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Post by swestwood »

swestwood wrote: post #19

I built PeerServer with a friend in 8 weeks last spring for our Stanford senior project -- it's a pleasant surprise to see it on HN six months later. We are planning to open-source the code and create a brief video showing off its abilities this weekend, as well as fix some of the issues you may be having in more recent versions of Firefox. The WebRTC DataChannel spec has been changing, so it works in FF 22 (beta at…

Also @sophiawestwood on Twitter if you'd like to chat about it

Re: PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC

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Post by gagege »

azakai wrote: post #12
graue wrote: post #11

Won't connect for me (Fx 25, Linux). Blank white screen and this in the console: TypeError: Not enough arguments to mozRTCPeerConnection.createOffer. @ http://www.peer-server.com/shared/lib/peer.min.js:1

Same on FF 28, also Linux.

FF 25.0.1 Windows, same :(

Awesome idea though, I can't wait till it works cross-browser!

Re: PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC

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Post by azakai »

gagege wrote: post #23
azakai wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same on FF 28, also Linux.

FF 25.0.1 Windows, same :( Awesome idea though, I can't wait till it works cross-browser!

Yeah, this is very exciting stuff, and bugs and problems are expected with something this cutting edge.

Re: PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC

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Post by headgasket »

phaer wrote: post #14
headgasket wrote: post #10

Quite interesting idea. On this we could have a distributed web server that scales as new ppl load the (site??). I can see this hurting akamai. People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable; even before widespread FTOH this could become potent. It would also simplify a Tor alternative implementation, would'nt it?

> People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable; Are you talking about the bay area? I have never seen such an connection in a private home. (central and southern europe)

We have it here in Mtl Canada. It's fiber to the neighbourhood and a new hi-speed DSL link for the last 200-300M.

Re: PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC

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Post by boulderdash »

phaer wrote: post #14
headgasket wrote: post #10

Quite interesting idea. On this we could have a distributed web server that scales as new ppl load the (site??). I can see this hurting akamai. People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable; even before widespread FTOH this could become potent. It would also simplify a Tor alternative implementation, would'nt it?

> People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable; Are you talking about the bay area? I have never seen such an connection in a private home. (central and southern europe)

guess what, in the bay area, connectivity up is generally even worse than that. For all the amazing internet companies here, the infrastructure for the public is pretty bad.

Re: PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC

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Post by krishnasrinivas »

mace wrote: post #13
aroch wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I checked Chrome's DataChannels implementation was flakey and missing support for several attributes

This should no longer be true. Chrome v31 ( http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/11/stable-chan... ) added SCTP support for reliable DataChannels and allowing compatibility with Firefox.

Chrome and Firefox DataChannels cannot connect with each other. Chrome and Firefox media connections can interop though
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