How create a P2P web-chat without any server?

is there a way to create a P2P web-chat w开发者_高级运维ithout any server ?

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Yes, but you must decide on a place to meet.

If your friend send his ip over to you, you can connect. Then you only need to tell some more people to join. After some time you will get bigger and bigger. Then, if some link on the net fail, the cloud will be broken up in two clouds(netsplit). Then everyone need to know how to get back to being "one cloud".

Some one in the cloud always have to play the server, that is done with voting. If all agreed on who is the server, then it's decided. If not agreed, shoot one down and vote again.

You have to host your own web-server to serve up the web-interface, I guess.

I have not tried this. But I think it would work.

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Malte Uble's excellent UniversalComet article does exactly that as a proof of concept. Even works with Iphone and Android phones.

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If you're willing to use Flash, check out Adobe Stratus, which allows for peer to peer data and video streaming. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/