Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go

Re:Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go by knocte on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:47AM (#19603943)

> It allows to share a file directly between two computers, without the need of a third party.

I'm guessing it still depends on STUN and TURN servers?

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Re:Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go by Antonito on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:38AM (#19605603)

Yup, it still relies on a STUN server to get the connection's metadata. As hardwaresofton pointed out, I'm using Google's STUN server.

Since it's only STUN, and not TURN, the actual transferred data does not go transit through it though.

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Re:Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go by davidcollantes on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:42PM (#19616510)

Is there no way to run this, without relying on a third party server/service?

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Re:Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go by hardwaresofton on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:20AM (#19612002)

Super late but thanks for clarifying this

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Re:Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go by hardwaresofton on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:50AM (#19603958)

Yup -- https://github.com/Antonito/gfile/blob/v0.1.0/internal/sessi...

There's no TURN server specified, and I'm not 100% sure whether the one that's specified there (Google's) does both (so if STUN didn't work, would it fail or attempt TURN?).

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Re:Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go by lossolo on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:43AM (#19604249)

Google only provides STUN server. Providing free, performant TURN server would require HUGE amount of resources.

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