Open WebRTC Toolkit P2P Server
Overview
Open WebRTC Toolkit P2P Server is the default signaling server of Open WebRTC Toolkit. It provides the ability to exchange WebRTC signaling messages over Socket.IO among different clients.
Running P2P Server
Install Dependencies
Install node dependencies by running following command in root directory of P2P server.
npm install
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
P2P server may be deployed in a different origin than the web pages. In this case, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is used to indicate which origins are allowed. Please add allowed origins to config.json
.
SSL/TLS
The default plain port is 8095, and the default secure port is 8096. These default values can be modified in the file config.json
.
Connecting server with secure socket.io connections is recommended. The default certificate is stored in cert
directory with two files: cert.pem
and key.pem
. Please replace them with trusted ones applied from a trusted CA.
Launch the server
Run the following command to launch the server:
node src/index.js
Stop the server
Press Ctrl + C to stop the peer server.
How to contribute
We warmly welcome community contributions to Open WebRTC Toolkit JavaScript SDK repository. If you are willing to contribute your features and ideas to OWT, follow the process below:
- Make sure your patch will not break anything, including all the build and tests
- Submit a pull request onto https://github.com/open-webrtc-toolkit/owt-server-p2p/pulls
- Watch your patch for review comments if any, until it is accepted and merged OWT project is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0. By contributing to the project, you agree to the license and copyright terms therein and release your contributions under these terms.
How to report issues
Use the "Issues" tab on Github.