Discussion: Why does signalhub works on HTTP and not WS

mafintosh / signalhub

Simple signalling server that can be used to coordinate handshaking with webrtc or other fun stuff.

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Discussion: Why does signalhub works on HTTP and not WS #33

Closed soyuka closed 5 years ago

soyuka commented 6 years ago

Hey,

I was wondering as this is a "signaling server" why it uses http and not websockets?

FTR I made a signalhub implementation based on websockets (here). I made this because we had issues where the browser (Chrome/FF) was requesting too many HTTP requests on top of our own and was slowing down the navigation.

soyuka commented 5 years ago

IMO http with event sourcing is a good alternative to websocket, to improve this I think that the issue really resides in the way that the mesh calls broadcast too much. Maybe that there's a better way to implement signaling by using more SSE to broadcast only when needed and therefore reduce the number of broadcast calls. Anyway, closing this issue as I know believe that this solution is as strong as the one using websocket and that HTTP > WSS.