[the8472]

adding a BEP will not fix webtorrent, it will still be incompatible with µTP / TCP transport and even more importantly the DHT. It's shoving the responsibility of being compatible onto everyone else because browser environments are inherently crippled, they do not provide access to such simple things as TCP/UDP sockets and thus can never be truly interoperable with protocols that run on them.

It smells a bit like embrace-extend-exterminate to me, even if it's not intentional, it currently is a natural consequence of "claim to do X in a browser" without access to the underlying primitives necessary to do X in a standards-compliant manner.

In my opinion browsers need to provide thinner abstractions over posix apis (with the appropriate sandboxing and opt-in where necessary).

[voltagex_]

>It smells a bit like embrace-extend-exterminate to me, even if it's not intentional, it currently is a natural consequence of "claim to do X in a browser" without access to the underlying primitives necessary to do X in a standards-compliant manner.

Sure, so don't support it. If no one supports the protocol or the app, then it will die. That's an acceptable outcome to some. I'm not saying anyone has to support it, I don't even have any vested interest in it. It's just an interesting project and I've spent far too long today on HackerNews defending it when I could be working on my own projects.

To me, it looks more like "Adding Bittorrent into Firefox is pretty much impossible, where can we start instead?"

>In my opinion browsers need to provide thinner abstractions over posix apis (with the appropriate sandboxing and opt-in where necessary).

NaCl & Emscripten should get you some of the way there.

[the8472]

> To me, it looks more like "Adding Bittorrent into Firefox is pretty much impossible, where can we start instead?"

Maybe with better browser-native interaction? A house starts with its foundation.

And calling it a torrent client while knowing that it isn't interoperable still leaves a bitter taste with me.

> NaCl & Emscripten should get you some of the way there.

they don't provide sockets or filesystem access as I understand it.