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Real Time communication library using Animated Gifs as a transport™

13 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2012-09-14 · latest 2019-05-07

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  1. Reminds me of this: https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets
    comment by _bxg1 · 2019-05-07 · in Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end
  2. [gifsockets]( https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets ) is another version of this
    comment by yogthos · 2017-08-13 · in Time.gif
  3. This is better: https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets - it's event based so doesn't tie up lots of memory while running and doesn't stop after 30 frames.
    comment by anewhnaccount · 2015-12-20 · in Real-time GIF images
  4. …are no more frames. People have exploited this to create a hackish one-way websocket [1]. [1]: https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets
    comment by shubhamjain · 2015-09-22 · in The 1,000-Year GIF
  5. can their reluctance be because of things like this https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets
    comment by kitwalker12 · 2015-08-20 · in Facebook introducing GIFs in some pages and posts
  6. …some hackers used gifs as an one-way raw socket. Very impressive stuff. Example project: https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets
    comment by mackwic · 2014-11-02 · in Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?
  7. Reminds me of 'websockets over GIF' https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets
    comment by steveklabnik · 2014-06-09 · in The Several Million Dollar Bug
  8. …encode each frame as a gif and send it to the browser as part of an animated gif a la gifsockets ( https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets )?
    comment by adambom · 2013-09-11 · in HTML Live Video Streaming Via WebSockets
  9. Could gifsockets be used to exfiltrate a file as well? https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets
    comment by malandrew · 2013-08-29 · in Exfiltrate Files with DNS Queries
  10. There was a post on HN a few months back of a gif-based realtime message transport : https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets#readme
    comment by caissy · 2013-05-24 · in VNC over gif
  11. …but yeah, it would be really tricky to actually pull it off. Then again, I heard about gifsockets ( http://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets ) earlier today, so I guess anything is possible!
    comment by se85 · 2012-09-21 · in HTML5 webcam to canvas stream (Demo + annotated code)
  12. Time to break out the gifsockets. https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets
    comment by username · 2012-09-21 · in iOS6 breaks long polling
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    Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
    story by old_sound · 2012-09-14 · 106 comments