[feedhenry-dev] FeedHenry Desktop Bridge

[Leigh Griffin]

CCing Brendan on this (and getting him to sign up to the list as well!)

Brendan has a lot of WebRTC experience from a past life!

Leigh

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Wojciech Trocki <wtrocki at redhat.com> wrote:

> WhatsApp is pretty verbose about their architecture.
>
> *Top level overview:*
>
> "When you receive a message, it gets delivered to your phone first. Every
> whatsapp account has an unique id, which is sent securely to the url you
> get from the QR code of the web client. Then, the web client polls *your
> mobile *for messages time to time. Thus, to use the web client your
> smartphone *has to be connected* to the internet.
>
> *More detailed info: *
>
> https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-new-WhatsApp-web-client-work
>
> There are couple unofficial clients:
>
> https://github.com/VctrySam/whatsapp
> https://github.com/bcalik/Whatsapp-Desktop
>
>
>
> WOJCIECH TROCKI
>
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> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Vojtech Sazel <vsazel at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> P2P communication between mobile clients, web browsers using WebRTC is
>> very interesting thing.
>> Check my code here https://github.com/wojta/serverless-webrtc-android
>> and also links from the README there. Mine is native Android app and that
>> guy Chris Ball has sample for web browser and Node.js command line app.
>>
>> And also there is Webtorrent - https://webtorrent.io/ that uses WebRTC.
>>
>> Vojtěch
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Vojtech Sazel <vsazel at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure, isn't it WebRTC? I played with that a little bit. You
>>>> usually don't need any server for most of P2P connections, only signaling
>>>> server and STUN server. On some stricter networks you'll need relaying
>>>> server.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Interesting.  I never thought of WebRTC as being used for not video, but
>>> it looks like it is a more general protocol as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Vojtěch
>>>>
>>>> Dne 1. 5. 2017 5:39 PM napsal uživatel "Summers Pittman" <
>>>> supittma at redhat.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> WhatsApp and Allo are both messaging applications which have a use
>>>>> case where your messages are not saved to a central server.  However, both
>>>>> products provide a Desktop client which syncs to the phone directly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have any experience building an application with this use
>>>>> case?  Are their any open libraries to look at and think about?  If not, do
>>>>> we want to build something to facilitate this type of behavior?
>>>>>
>>>>> If there is interest I can write up some simple use cases and possible
>>>>> solutions which we can iterate ideas on.
>>>>>
>>>>> Summers
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