WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end

Re:WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end by rid on Monday September 15, 2014 @08:10AM (#8318331)

Seems similar to PaddleOver [1] which was developed by Bittorrent inc a few years ago using their Btapp.js [2] library, unfortunately the PaddleOver site has expired and the code base hasn't been updated in a year.

It would be interesting to know if the developer looked at btapp.js and if so, why did he decide not to use it? Getting this technology web embeddable will go a long way to start making peer-to-peer a convenient method of downloading content vs directly downloading from a server, there's always going to be further hurdles to overcome with reliability in a case where the swarm lifetime is very short, but seeding with a few servers can help in that situation. If a web app could upload the torrent and data to a server to seed, then replicate it in a few locations it could be a decent DCDN.

[1] http://pwmckenna.com/2012/06/29/making-of-paddle-over.html

[2] http://btappjs.com/

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Re:WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end by Legogris on Monday September 15, 2014 @08:18AM (#8318349)

Btapp.js is just a JavaScript API that acts like an interface to their closed-source, Windows-and-OSX-only browser plugin Torque: https://github.com/bittorrenttorque/btapp/issues/11

Something that is done purely with cross-browser compatible web technologies is far more interesting and promising.

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Re:WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end by rid on Monday September 15, 2014 @08:37AM (#8318406)

Thanks for the clarification, additionally I could only find a Chrome plugin for Torque, which should be compatible with other torrent clients out of the box. However I can definitely see the advantage of using only web technologies. If anyone's interested I found the paddleover example on github:

https://github.com/bittorrenttorque/paddleover.com

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