Re: URL.createObjectURL() for DataChannels

Although it may have had some details incorrect, I think the general idea
is an interesting one:  could web page resources (such as images) be loaded
through a the data channel?

I can think of a few ways that might be accomplished.  But before I think
too much about it:  has anyone else spent some time thinking about how it
could be done and under what circumstances it could be useful?



On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>wrote:

> On 07/15/2013 11:32 AM, piranna@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> With URL.createObjectURL() you can create a temporal URL for example
>> from a getUserMedia() video and attach it to a <video> tag, or you can
>> use it with a Javascript fragment of code inside a Blob object and
>> give it to an inline WebWorker (also from inside a file:// scheme).
>>
>
> Sorry, I can't parse that description.
> - It's "temporary", not "temporal"
> - There aren't Javascript fragments inside Blob objects
> - I don't know what you mean by "give it to an inline WebWorker".
>
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>> My idea is to be able to do the same but with WebRTC DataChannels.
>> This way, they could be accesed using an iframe location or similar
>> (also a <video> tag if required) using nested URLs this way:
>>
>> iframe.location = "http:blob:<random-blob-UUID>/**index.html"
>>
>
> This URL is malformed, unless I've forgotten everything I know about HTTP
> URLs.
> If you want an URL that accesses some protocol other than HTTP, please
> don't use HTTP URLs.
>
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>
>> This would allow literally surf over webpages hosted on the other peer
>> or whatever other thing you can do with a normal URL on the browser
>> without needing to reimplement them, just changing the TCP/HTTP
>> transport for the datachannel itself, and also maybe it would be
>> integrated directly on the browser (via plugin?) so it would run on
>> the main document setting that URL directly in the URL address bar.
>>
>
> Unfortunately HTTP has the concept of an end-of-page (unless you use one
> of the infinite-document tricks that people have been using while waiting
> for webchannels to become available).
>
>
>> For security, it would be required that only connect to DataChannels
>> whose protocol attribute is set and it's equal to the scheme we are
>> trying to use on it.
>>
>
> Please try to reformulate what you want to do rather than trying to
> express it in terms of HTTP; HTTP just doesn't work that way.
>
>
>
>>
>> --
>> "Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un
>> monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo
>> Unix."
>> – Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux
>>
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