BEP 55 hole punching

[resession]

Haven't seen anything BEP 55(hole punching) for webtorrent. Any plans to support it in the future or is that out of scope for webtorrent?

[github-actions]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

[paullouisageneau]

This is not possible with WebTorrent as it runs over WebRTC, not over raw UDP.

WebRTC already implements a form of hole punching with the ICE protocol (RFC 5245 then RFC 8845).

[RangerMauve]

For reference, WebTorrent also supports raw UDP when running in node.js, and stuff like webtorrent-hybrid enable you to do run both UDP and WebRTC in paralell. (this is what's used in WebTorrent Desktop).

[paullouisageneau]

@RangerMauve Indeed, my statement may be misleading, BEP 55 can still be implemented for traditional Bittorrent connections over UDP when running out the browser.

[resession]

this issue was opened for running webtorrent on nodejs, since we have access to UDP on node, BEP 55 would make connections between peers a lot better.

[isc30]

Hey, did any of you implement the extension? I'm about to implement it in case no one else did 😃