webtorrent/bittorrent-dht

test if peer is webrtc compatible

ralyodio opened this issue · 3 comments

ralyodio commented

I'm using this code to get peers:

  dht.lookup(data.infohash, (err, peers) => {
    data.peers = peers; // eg: 10
    resolve(data);
  });

Is there anyway to check the peers to see if any support webrtc/webtorrent?

feross commented

The peers found in the DHT will always be ip:port peers, never WebRTC peers. Technically, the client listening on the ip:port could also support WebRTC, but there's no way to find that out.

ralyodio commented

Its not even possible to try connecting over webrtc somehow and see if it succeeds?

feross commented

No, an IP and port is not enough to connect over WebRTC. I suggest reading about how WebRTC works.