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by jzm2k 897 days ago
>Sadly both WebRTC and WebSockets seem to have been designed in such a way that excludes pure peer-to-peer operation.

What do you mean by pure peer-to-peer operation?
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lostmsu 897 days ago
When there's no need for a central server(s) to establish connection.
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jzm2k 897 days ago
Is there any P2P network that fits that criteria? The first time you connect, you need to know at least one publicly reachable node but I fail to see how that relates to WebSocket/WebRTC. I think central server is somewhat ambiguous because the bootnode could be any node on the network you have prior knowledge of.
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lostmsu 897 days ago
As I mentioned in the sibling, there's multicast/broadcast (classic multiplayer games used it) and you could do IP scanning.
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jzm2k 896 days ago
I still don't understand what this has to do with WebRTC/WebSocket. You can combine, e.g., mDNS with WebRTC and build a pure peer-to-peer network.
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lostmsu 896 days ago
You can't use mDNS in the browser.

The standards are carefully defined in a way that creates server dependency. WebSocket outright does not allow connections to other browsers directly. WebRTC does, but you are extremely limited in how you could do discovery. I think both are intentional.

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