P2P support for infrastructure Topic is solved

[Schimon]

Greetings!

I suggest to consider to utilize a P2P protocol (BitTorrent, ED2K, Gnutella, IPFS, Pears etc.) for Palemoon infrastructure, namely for extensions.

The repository of RealityRipple Software can be also available via P2P or both, and thereby reduce the costs of RealityRipple Software.

I think that an installer based on P2P would also be useful.

I share (i.e. seed, so called) over 50K torrents and I would be delighted to seed all of the extensions and themes of Palemoon and other XUL projects.

Related topics: Decentralised internet protocol support.

[RealityRipple]

My website has unlimited file storage and bandwidth. Whether one byte or one terabyte is downloaded, my monthly bill remains the same.

[Schimon]

There may be other constrains such as censorship.

For instance, if you would have an IP address of Iran, GttLab would be blocked to you due to "legal" restrictions by Washington D.C.

P2P solves such arbitrary restrictions.

[Moonchild]

So you want Pale Moon to also become a torrent client?

[Schimon]

I prefer ED2K or Gnutella with DHT support.

I think, that it would be of a great benefit to distribute Pale Moon data.

[Moonchild]

So the answer is "let's add a complex peer-to-peer chunked protocol to a web browser because http downloads are so pedestrian"

No. just no.

[moonbat]

There may be other constrains such as censorship.

For instance, if you would have an IP address of Iran

What gave you the impression that RealityRipple or anyone else here was from Iran or any other restricted country? Solution looking for a problem much?

[Schimon]

Iran was an example because I have heard of it from a friend.

I have no intention to propose needless complexity.

I genuinely think, that a decentralized communication mean would be of a good value to Pale Moom and other projects.

[RoestVrijStaal]

In theory the possibilities for addons delivered by XUL are endless.

There is/was an addon which implements an complete IRC client with even DCC file sending support.

So you could write an addon implementing any P2P-client.

But why would you when there is a thing like WebTorrent?

[Moonchild]

But why would you when there is a thing like WebTorrent?

Because it's broken. It can only connect to other WebTorrent browser peers. ;P

Note: WebTorrent does not support UDP/TCP peers in browser.

Also, it uses WebRTC, so it's not even implementing P2P itself but rather misusing a chat protocol:

In the browser, WebTorrent uses WebRTC (data channels) for peer-to-peer transport. It can be used without browser plugins, extensions, or installations. It's Just JavaScript™.

Now, using XUL and access to all the platform APIs, it could, actually, implement a full-fat BitTorrent client. "Torrent Tornado" is one such thing. Of note: Firefox no longer supports this kind of client because WebExtensions simply don't have the functionality available to them for this kind of client. We, however, do.