PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC

This should no longer be true. Chrome v31 (http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/11/stable-chan...) added SCTP support for reliable DataChannels and allowing compatibility with Firefox.

sil3ntmac3• 13 years ago

Congrats, I have been waiting to see someone build something like this for a while. This is truly a glimpse into the future :)

Edit: I should have vetted this a little harder before commenting. I recognized the idea immediately, but the implementation here is rather lacking. Still, props for pushing the envelop.

sil3ntmac3• 13 years ago

Erm, you guys did disable TURN right? (because otherwise the security value here is fairly decreased)

headgasket2• 13 years ago

Quite interesting idea.

On this we could have a distributed web server that scales as new ppl load the (site??). I can see this hurting akamai. People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable; even before widespread FTOH this could become potent. It would also simplify a Tor alternative implementation, would'nt it?

phaer• 13 years ago

People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable; Are you talking about the bay area? I have never seen such an connection in a private home. (central and southern europe)

skimmas• 13 years ago

southern europe here (portugal) and in the cities it's pretty common

piranha• 13 years ago

Here in Ukraine that's pretty common. I have 60 mbps for 9$/m, and that is quite normal in Kyiv.

headgasket2• 13 years ago

We have it here in Mtl Canada. It's fiber to the neighbourhood and a new hi-speed DSL link for the last 200-300M.

boulderdash• 13 years ago

guess what, in the bay area, connectivity up is generally even worse than that. For all the amazing internet companies here, the infrastructure for the public is pretty bad.

graue• 13 years ago

Won't connect for me (Fx 25, Linux). Blank white screen and this in the console:

TypeError: Not enough arguments to mozRTCPeerConnection.createOffer. @ http://www.peer-server.com/shared/lib/peer.min.js:1

azakai2• 13 years ago

Same on FF 28, also Linux.

gagege• 13 years ago

FF 25.0.1 Windows, same :(

Awesome idea though, I can't wait till it works cross-browser!

0x0• 13 years ago

Reminds me about Opera Unite.

swestwood2• 13 years ago

I built PeerServer with a friend in 8 weeks last spring for our Stanford senior project -- it's a pleasant surprise to see it on HN six months later.

We are planning to open-source the code and create a brief video showing off its abilities this weekend, as well as fix some of the issues you may be having in more recent versions of Firefox. The WebRTC DataChannel spec has been changing, so it works in FF 22 (beta at the time we developed it) but breaks for some later versions where the API changed. It'll be fixed over the weekend for FF and the latest Chrome -- sorry for the issues some are having now.

Thanks for the great comments and enthusiasm!

swestwood2• 13 years ago

Also @sophiawestwood on Twitter if you'd like to chat about it

panzi• 13 years ago

Firefox 25 (Linux):

"[22:21:01.082] TypeError: Not enough arguments to mozRTCPeerConnection.createOffer. @ http://www.peer-server.com/shared/lib/peer.min.js:1"

PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC

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