No. Browsers can only initiate WebSockets connections, not receive them. The W3C browser API spec only defines how to start an outbound connection. You can make an application that would both initiate and accept WebSockets connections, but browsers do not do this. You might look at Pusher App which you could use to build a … Read more
With trackerless/DHT torrents, peer IP addresses are stored in the DHT using the BitTorrent infohash as the key. Since all a tracker does, basically, is respond to put/get requests, this functionality corresponds exactly to the interface that a DHT (distributed hash table) provides: it allows you to look up and store IP addresses in the … Read more
Here on Stackoverflow are several topics about P2P connections in browsers: Will HTML5 allow web apps to make peer-to-peer HTTP connections? What techniques are available to do P2P in the browser? Does HTML5 Support Peer-to-Peer (and not just WebSockets) Can HTML5 Websockets connect 2 clients (browsers) directly without using a server (P2P) Is it possible … Read more
Here’s a bug report on the feature you’re requesting. It’s status is “reviewed” but I don’t believe it’s been implemented yet. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82
With trackerless/DHT torrents, peer IP addresses are stored in the DHT using the BitTorrent infohash as the key. Since all a tracker does, basically, is respond to put/get requests, this functionality corresponds exactly to the interface that a DHT (distributed hash table) provides: it allows you to look up and store IP addresses in the … Read more
You can get the device model number using uname from sys/utsname.h. For example: #import <sys/utsname.h> NSString* machineName() { struct utsname systemInfo; uname(&systemInfo); return [NSString stringWithCString:systemInfo.machine encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; } The result should be: @”i386″ on the simulator @”iPod1,1″ on iPod Touch @”iPod2,1″ on iPod Touch Second Generation @”iPod3,1″ on iPod Touch Third Generation @”iPod4,1″ on iPod Touch … Read more
I’m not sure whether it completely fulfils your needs, but you should probably take a look at tinc: http://www.tinc-vpn.org/. It quite closely matches the mesh network orchestrated by a central server as you described, but I’m not sure whether it will succeed in discovering peers in your local network.
Ok, they’re fundamentally a pretty simple idea. A DHT gives you a dictionary-like interface, but the nodes are distributed across the network. The trick with DHTs is that the node that gets to store a particular key is found by hashing that key, so in effect your hash-table buckets are now independent nodes in a … Read more