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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by SomeCallMeTim on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @12:01PM (#9532690)

It's worth noting that WebRTC still requires a server of SOME sort -- typically you want a "signaling" server, and you need at least a STUN server to pierce firewalls, though the latter can be found for free.

And some corporate networks are too restrictive to be pierced by STUN, which means you need a TURN server, which is a relay server.

But yes, 98% of the time, WebRTC can go directly browser to browser. As long as neither browser is Internet Explorer. Sigh.

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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by billmalarky on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @12:37PM (#9532948)

These guys have an open source plugin that allows IE to join the webRTC party.

http://skylink.io/plugin/

This library they also have makes WebRTC cross browser compatible.

https://github.com/Temasys/AdapterJS

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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by amelius on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @07:02AM (#9538050)

> As long as neither browser is Internet Explorer. Sigh.

If all popular torrent sites moved to in-browser downloads over WebRTC, virtually everybody would move away from IE :)

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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by cmdrfred on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @07:18PM (#9535645)

I never knew about STUN, this solves so many problems I've had. Thanks.

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