Re:What Opera is about to Unveil?
by huhtenberg on Saturday June 13, 2009 @11:54AM
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> unless you get router manufacturers' support
It's already there. The UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) is supported by virtually every consumer-grade "router" out there. For one, it can be used to dynamically configure port forwarding on the router so a server application on the inside of the router would become accessible from the Internet.
i think the router-issue is not really a blocker, and you wouldn't need to establish a connection to a main server either.
for example, any bittorrent client 'drills' holes through firewalls and routers to receive incoming connections.
yes, you can forward port. But for standard web server, that is 80 port. If more than one user uses the embedded web server, there are port conflict. At least, it is not the normal web server.
yes but that means you need a client that supports the push request method. Hardly the freedom they talk about (because nothing does that yet)
Still, you can achieve the "web server" thing by establishing a client-server connection to the Opera central server and the Opera central server will act like a "router". That, is more like what Windows Live file sharing feature.
Opera all these years acts like a good citizen with W3C's guideline. There is no way for Opera to support two-way ajax because there is no general standard.