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Demonstration of a browser connecting to Pion WebRTC without a signaling server.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2019-12-10 · latest 2026-05-09

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  1. …been asked by users/developers. [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hancke-tsvwg-snap/ [1] https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication [3] https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/n...
    comment by Sean-Der · 2026-05-09 · in OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
  2. You can! https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication It uses mDNS for discovery. You can only do one browser though. I don’t see a path forward on browser/browser that is obvious. It would make it so easy to fingerprint if you…
    comment by Sean-Der · 2025-03-12 · in Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
  3. …be to remove that dependency. My other wishlist item is to allow mDNS for signaling. Something like https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication . It is so silly that I need to exchange a Offer/Answer using a remote server to…
    comment by Sean-Der · 2024-09-30 · in Peer Calls: WebRTC peer to peer calls for everyone
  4. Yep! If you do one non-browser WebRTC agents https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication This could be possible browser to browser! I don’t think that has ever been an official use case
    comment by Sean-Der · 2024-08-02 · in Peerfetch – Peer-to-Peer HTTP over WebRTC
  5. …I wish the w3c/ietf would care, but that’s the issue with corporate/profit driven standards! [0] https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication
    comment by Sean-Der · 2024-03-30 · in Overlay networks based on WebRTC
  6. I think that’s an amazing idea. I tried with https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication but it requires standards improvements If you are interested I would love to work together! Join the Pion slack and would love to brainstorm
    comment by Sean-Der · 2024-01-09 · in P2pcf: P2P WebRTC via Cloudflare Workers
  7. Yes that is (almost) possible! https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication If the W3C accepted this as a valid use case it could be available quickly.
    comment by Sean-Der · 2023-07-14 · in Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS
  8. …https://webrtcforthecurious.com/docs/02-signaling/ I have an example of WebRTC without signaling https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication . Each side has to agree on things ahead of time. Useful for security cameras/IoT/LAN…
    comment by Sean-Der · 2023-06-10 · in OBS merges WebRTC support
  9. …upon this pattern and been trying to convince people that real use cases will be unlocked. * https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication * https://sean-der.github.io/webrtc-uri/draft-seaduboi-webrtc-... [0]…
    comment by Sean-Der · 2020-09-25 · in Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound
  10. …stuff connecting without signaling via mDNS, and I am working on a RFC now to grow on that idea! * https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication * https://sean-der.github.io/webrtc-uri/draft-seaduboi-webrtc-...
    comment by Sean-Der · 2020-09-25 · in Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound
  11. …[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Snowflake/... [2] https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication
    comment by Sean-Der · 2020-03-04 · in Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing
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    Show HN: P2P/serverless browser to Go back end – no DNS/IP required
    story by Sean-Der · 2019-12-10 · 7 comments