Re: URL.createObjectURL() for DataChannels

Similar to PeerCDN, you say? I believe they have the code on GitHub...
El 17/07/2013 02:08, "Peter Thatcher" <pthatcher@google.com> escribió:

> That's pretty cool.  Has anyone done something a little more
> open-source-ish so that piranna@gmail.com and others interested can see
> how it could be done?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <
> silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought that's exactly what these guys do:
>> http://gigaom.com/2013/03/28/peercdn-p2p-cdn/
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 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".
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> 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.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> 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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