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libwebsockets
- FLaNK Weekly 08 Jan 2024
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Libwebsockets
This is just the endemic result of C++ lacking a package manager.
Every library starts out small, adds its own vendored utilities, adds its own dependencies, and eventually becomes boost.
To be fair to this project, theyve worked quite hard to make the library consumable by others… but yes, its hard to look at the code like https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/blob/50ba61082dc40b...
…and not go… really? As part of the core of libwebsocket?
When you read the justification it’s mostly “well we have a good framework now, so why not use it for other things too?”
C++ life.
/shrug
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Rusty C programmer needs help with modern tools
I'm trying to setup a project using libwebsockets.
- Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide
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Hacker News top posts: Sep 7, 2021
Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C library\ (48 comments)
- libwebsockets - a flexible, lightweight pure C library for implementing modern network protocols
- Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C library
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Need some direction on writing a web socket client
and how others have implemented the client
libdatachannel
- VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble
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Simplicity of IRC
You can use https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel for your C/C++ integration needs. It's 10k lines. So the answer is 0. Its required dependencies (I assume this as they are git submodules in deps) are more than 100k lines, though, srtp support making the bulk of it. On my machine it took 11 seconds to compile it.
Irssi is 64k lines (plus its dependencies), so I guess that makes WebRTC complicated.
Can't argue that DCC isn't simple, but perhaps the protocol deviced decades ago is a bit too simple.
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OBS merges AV1 support for WebRTC
Most of the work happened in the libdatachannel! You can check out my PR here[0]
[0] https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel/commit/a6...
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Pure C WebRTC
I am really excited about https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer. It has examples ready for ESP32 etc....
When working on KVS I wasn't familiar with the embedded space at all. I saw 'heavyweight' embedded where you were running on Linux. Then you had RTOS/No OS at all. I wasn't prepared for these devices at all. If we can make WebRTC work in the embedded space I think it will really accelerate what developers are able to build!
Remotely driven cars, security cameras, robots in hospitals that bring iPads to infectious patients etc... Creative people are building amazing things. The WebRTC/video space needs to work harder and support them :)
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I love how diverse the WebRTC space is now. Outside of this implementation you have plenty of other options!
* https://github.com/shinyoshiaki/werift-webrtc (Typescript)
* https://github.com/pion/webrtc (Golang)
* https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc (Rust)
* https://github.com/algesten/str0m (Rust)
* hhttps://github.com/sepfy/libpeer (C/Embedded)
* https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src/ (C++)
* https://github.com/sipsorcery-org/sipsorcery (C#)
* https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel (C++)
* https://github.com/elixir-webrtc (Elixir)
* https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc (Python)
* GStreamer’s webrtcbin (C)
See https://github.com/sipsorcery/webrtc-echoes for examples of some running against each other.
- WebRTC for the Curious
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Building WebRTC server implementation for Erlang
This is not true, there are actually multiple WebRTC implementations in different languages besides the reference library: aiortc (python), libdatachannel (C++), sipsorcery (C#),webrtc-rs (rust), werift (Typescript), and Amazon Kinesis (C)
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I spent two years building a desktop environment that runs in the browser, it's finally in beta!
Use any means necessary to transfer your data across devices. Could be IPFS, could be FTP, could be EventSource, WebSocket, WebTransport, Fetch, whatever. See https://github.com/guest271314/secure-file-transfer; offscreen-webrtc, https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel.
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Client side Rest server?
I've successfully used libdatachannel to Web pages to connect native applications and stream data to the browser.
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Security Framework
Alternatively you can use your server as a signaling server for WebRTC (Insertable Streams ("Breakout Box"), or data channels https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel), then users (peers) can exchange data themselves and you don't need to store anything, see True End-to-End Encryption with WebRTC Insertable Streams, A complete example for a WebRTC datachannel with manual signaling.
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Datachannel video streaming?
there is also a c++ library that can be used to open a data channel connection, I think a number of SFU “servers?” use this library (I wish I had) https://libdatachannel.org/
What are some alternatives?
WebSocket++ - C++ websocket client/server library
libjuice - JUICE is a UDP Interactive Connectivity Establishment library
µWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications
Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API
libcurl - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
aiortc - WebRTC and ORTC implementation for Python using asyncio
Boost.Beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11
sora-unity-sdk - WebRTC SFU Sora Unity SDK
Mongoose - Embedded Web Server
janus-gateway - Janus WebRTC Server
C++ REST SDK - The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.