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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by BiteCode_dev on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:03AM (#43343367)
https://wormhole.app/ has been spared and is pretty good. Encrypted, dl can start before up is finished, decent size limit.

Unrelated to the wormhole python cli tool and associated file sharing protocol.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by smusamashah on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:12AM (#43343456)
It's not a p2p tool btw.
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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by smallerize on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:22AM (#43343566)
It can be, if you send files larger than 5GB. https://wormhole.app/faq
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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by toomim on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:37PM (#43349876)
Yeah, it uses webtorrent behind the scenes: https://webtorrent.io

...which is freaking awesome torrent software, by the way.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by jeffhuys on Thursday March 13, 2025 @05:54AM (#43351714)
It's okay - 99% of the video files I download have to be opened in VLC, though :/

But still, being able to almost immediately stream, even if through VLC, is pretty nice.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by lxgr on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:35AM (#43343712)
Both not to be confused with Web Wormhole, which is also pretty good: https://webwormhole.io/

Slightly different approach – "P2P first", i.e. both sender and receiver need to be online simultaneously throughout the transfer, but there's a TURN relay, so it should work in almost all network constellations.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by macielfclaudio on Thursday March 13, 2025 @09:30AM (#43353143)
I use https://onionshare.org/. It's not p2p afaik, but dang! that one is easy to work with.
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