Does HTML5 Support Peer-to-Peer (and not just WebSockets)

Question

The language I am working in is Javascript on HTML5-compatible browsers.

My understanding is that WebSockets require a socket server to transport push notifications and messages back and forth between clients.

Is there an actual peer-to-peer capability with HTML5 that does not require a socket server? Has anyone seen example client-side code in Javascript that exemplifies this capability?

Solution 1

See the answers for Will HTML5 allow web apps to make peer-to-peer HTTP connections? However, the content in the WebSockets specification seems to have gone, so I suspect the answer now is "no".

Solution 2

WebRTC http://www.webrtc.org/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/WebRTC

But in 2010 it wasn’t a thing :(

Comments

[shacharz]

This is incorrect, WebRTC support direct peer-to-peer communications. And there are existing applications already who use it: sharefest.me , peer5.com

[Chris Morgan]

Yes, WebRTC has indeed taken up this matter. In 2010 it wasn’t a thing, though; I believe it was more than a year before there were any stable implementations of it.

[Zibri]

I like httprelay.io is there on github any source code similar to httprelay.io ?