ambianic / peerfetch

Peer-to-peer HTTP over WebRTC.

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peerfetch's Issues

Question on P2P network setup

@ivelin I have a question on P2P network setup step.

In your example your connecting to signaling service hosted on heroku to register the peer. Which piece of the software is responsible for the signaling service "registrar"? This part I'm a bit confused about.

Implement HTML fetch() ReadableStream interface

Implement the HTML fetch() ReadableStream interface in peer.fetch() to allow developers to access WebSockets end points on IoT devices in addition to request/response REST APIs.

Research Matrix.org as a signaling server alternative to PeerJS Server

Currently we use a fork of PeerJS Server as the signaling server for peerfetch clients. This works fine, but requires hosting a signaling server.

It is also a single point of failure, although this is not a big concern, because it only has ephemeral state and it takes very little to recycle a bad instance and start a new one with minimum disruption to the peerfetch network. Each peerfetch edge node periodically re-registers with the currently active signaling server, so a restarted server will restore the network to a fully working state within a few seconds.

We can investigate whether the global matrix.org network is a more secure and resilient alternative with lower maintenance cost.