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Re:Sharefest HTML5 plugin-free P2P file sharing platfrom usi... by liamzebedee on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @07:19AM (#5824822)
What you did is very novel (I had a similar solution in my head that involved using qirc hosts for IRC bootstrapping like in Bitcoin) but I was targeting a different point.

What I was referring to was the lack of any API for signalling over already obtained network information (such as IP) rather than using a server for the initial signalling when you could use direct communications immediately after NAT has been traversed.

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Re:Sharefest HTML5 plugin-free P2P file sharing platfrom usi... by piranna on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @05:44PM (#5828828)
Thank you :-)

Yes, it's a same there's no way to do connections based on IP at this moment... It was discussed some time ago on the W3C WebRTC mail list but don't know where it went :-/

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Re:Sharefest HTML5 plugin-free P2P file sharing platfrom usi... by liamzebedee on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @07:25PM (#5829357)
Do you still have the link? I really think this needs to be in the standard API.
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