Re: [ppsp] FWI - raw UDP socket access in browsers

[Dave Cottlehuber <[e-mail]>]

For firefox it won't be a plugin, it will be native code + exposed js api;
there's no guarantee that this will be merged into the official ff release
though yet.

I hope to have a crack at building it form source next week.

WRT webrtc, you'll also have a full encrypted stack open between every
peer, similar to tcp, including sctp, dtls, udp underneath. I don't think
SCTP is going to be exposed directly in the browsers (i.e. in JS) but I'd
not expect a lot of additional code to do that.

A+
Dave



On 7 March 2014 14:44, Johan Pouwelse <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi All,
> A plug-in is required for Chrome.
>
> Only "Chrome Apps" have access to the UDP API it seems:
> http://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_network
> For Firefox, is this also "plug-in only"?
>   -j
>
> On 5 March 2014 12:30, Dave Cottlehuber <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I have been following these tickets/features with interest for a while;
> >
> > firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=952927
> > chrome: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/sockets_udp
> >
> > also,
> http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/06/27/google-adds-its-udp-replacement-quic-network-protocol-to-latest-chrome-build/is intriguing. Keep an eye on it in
> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/proto-quic
> >
> > A+
> > --
> > Dave Cottlehuber
> > Sent from my PDP11
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > ppsp mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ppsp
>