top | item 24358802 (no title) ogisan | 5 years ago WebTorrent [1] can be used to run BitTorrent on the web. It's actually integrated into the Brave browser which is a nice feature. Other browsers might catch on soon.[1] https://webtorrent.io/ discuss order hn newest aeyes|5 years ago Caution: Don't open this page on a metered connection, immediately starts downloading a 130MB movie file. clemParis|5 years ago Ouch, I understand that it demoes their solution, but with the autoplay that's very insensitive. mc10|5 years ago WebTorrent is pretty limited though:> ... a browser-based WebTorrent client or "web peer" can only connect to other clients that support WebTorrent/WebRTC.(from https://webtorrent.io/faq)This essentially splinters the world into the bittorrent and webtorrent halves, which makes it far less useful. 0-_-0|5 years ago WebTorrent is part of libtorrent now, so should be part of all torrent clients based on it, e.g. qBittorrent:https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123 load replies (1) Sean-Der|5 years ago If you want a CLI/Desktop WebTorrent client https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent works great. vbezhenar|5 years ago For some reason browser vendors do not allow JavaScript to connect to any port. So there's no other way.
aeyes|5 years ago Caution: Don't open this page on a metered connection, immediately starts downloading a 130MB movie file. clemParis|5 years ago Ouch, I understand that it demoes their solution, but with the autoplay that's very insensitive.
clemParis|5 years ago Ouch, I understand that it demoes their solution, but with the autoplay that's very insensitive.
mc10|5 years ago WebTorrent is pretty limited though:> ... a browser-based WebTorrent client or "web peer" can only connect to other clients that support WebTorrent/WebRTC.(from https://webtorrent.io/faq)This essentially splinters the world into the bittorrent and webtorrent halves, which makes it far less useful. 0-_-0|5 years ago WebTorrent is part of libtorrent now, so should be part of all torrent clients based on it, e.g. qBittorrent:https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123 load replies (1) Sean-Der|5 years ago If you want a CLI/Desktop WebTorrent client https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent works great. vbezhenar|5 years ago For some reason browser vendors do not allow JavaScript to connect to any port. So there's no other way.
0-_-0|5 years ago WebTorrent is part of libtorrent now, so should be part of all torrent clients based on it, e.g. qBittorrent:https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123 load replies (1)
Sean-Der|5 years ago If you want a CLI/Desktop WebTorrent client https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent works great.
vbezhenar|5 years ago For some reason browser vendors do not allow JavaScript to connect to any port. So there's no other way.
aeyes|5 years ago
clemParis|5 years ago
mc10|5 years ago
> ... a browser-based WebTorrent client or "web peer" can only connect to other clients that support WebTorrent/WebRTC.
(from https://webtorrent.io/faq)
This essentially splinters the world into the bittorrent and webtorrent halves, which makes it far less useful.
0-_-0|5 years ago
https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123
Sean-Der|5 years ago
vbezhenar|5 years ago