I worked REALLY HARD to make it all statil HTML and Javascript, and I'm still working hard to remove the handshake servers... Any help here will be greatly welcome :-)
Hmm, who runs the handshake servers, and how can you remove them? Unfortunately I haven't managed to get the app to run, but it sounds fantastic in theory...
Currently I'm using PubNub as a "pool of peers", where a new peer connect and send a "presence" message that's listened by the previous peers, that then send a SDP offer to that new guy. Later, it keeps waiting some time sending offers to the new guys, and when it has several connections (from older and newer peers) it disconnect and start to search for new peers only over the WebP2P network.
Ideally, I would like to use something more "agnostic" like SIP or XMPP, but didn't be able yet to do it in an anonimous way, since both protocols require to create accounts somewhere that later when you register on a SIP or XMPP server it ask to confirm that you exists, so goodbye anonimity :-(
I don't know how Gnutella works, but it's good to know! :-)
EDIT: Ok, I have just read about Gnutella design on wikipedia and although in the past I didn't understand anything (I never was too much into P2P programs since I had internet from neighbours wifi...) now I can say that yes, both Gnutella and ShareIt!/WebP2P has a lot of things on common about their purposses and how it's designed, although just by serendipity :-P This definitely it's not bad, since I can be able to learn from their errors and also I would be able to propose to extend Gnutella to support DataChannels & HTTP as transport layer, so everybody wins :-D
