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WebP2P - Pure Javascript framework for Peer to Peer applications over WebRTC
Jesús Leganés Combarro "Piranna" - [piranna@gmail.com]
WebP2P is a "Peer to Peer" filesharing framework written in pure Javascript mainly focused on the development of P2P filesharing applications. This project is also candidate for the [Universitary Free Software Championship] (http://www.concursosoftwarelibre.org/1213).
If you will fork the project (specially if you want to do modifications) please send me an email just to let me know about your progress :-)
About
File transfers in WebP2P is build over WebRTC PeerConnection [DataChannels] (http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/webrtc.html#rtcdatachannel) so they could be transfered directly between peers, but since currently they are not available natively it's necesary to use a [DataChannel polyfill] (https://github.com/piranna/DataChannel-polyfill). This makes it perfect for anonymity.
Let's make a purely browser based, ad-free, Free and Open Source private and anonymous distributed filesharing system!
Mailing List
If you'd like to discuss P2P web applications further, send an email to
webp2p@librelist.com
and you'll be part of the discussion mailing list! ([Archives here] (http://librelist.com/browser/webp2p/)).
How to test it
This library is part of the ShareIt! project, so maybe you would interested in go directly there.
The peer connections are managed by an external handshake channel. Currently is being used primarily PubNub and [SimpleSignaling] (https://github.com/piranna/SimpleSignaling) using a test server hosted on Nodejitsu, but it's being researched to use some more standard and distributed handshake protocols in an annonimous way so this single-point-of-failure could be dropped.
Regarding to the browser, it's recomended to use a high edge one. Test are being done on Chromium v24 at this moment and currently it's the only officially supported (news about it being used sucesfully on other browser are greatly accepted!!! :-D ). You can test it locally opening two browser tabs, but it should work also if used between several machines (it was succesfully tested to transfer files through the wild Internet from Findland to Spain... :-) ).
External libraries
Handshake
Random utilities
Some related project
License
All this code is under the Affero GNU General Public License. Regarding to the core of the application at js/webp2p (that I'll distribute as an independent library/framework some date in the future) I am willing to relicense it under the BSD/MIT/Apache license, I simply ask that you email me and tell me why. I'll almost certainly agree.
Patches graciously accepted!