How create a P2P web-chat without any server?

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xRobot picture xRobot · Mar 17, 2010 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

is there a way to create a P2P web-chat without any server ?

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Flinkman picture Flinkman · Mar 17, 2010

Yes, but you must decide on a place to meet.

If your friend send his ip over to you, you can connect. Then you only need to tell some more people to join. After some time you will get bigger and bigger. Then, if some link on the net fail, the cloud will be broken up in two clouds(netsplit). Then everyone need to know how to get back to being "one cloud".

Some one in the cloud always have to play the server, that is done with voting. If all agreed on who is the server, then it's decided. If not agreed, shoot one down and vote again.

You have to host your own web-server to serve up the web-interface, I guess.

I have not tried this. But I think it would work.

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