Machsend - P2P file sharing in the browser

[maccman]

http://leadthinking.com/89-machsend-p2p-in-the-browser

[pqs]

Yahoo! BroserPlus does not work in GNU/Linux.

It supports:

Windows XP & Vista

    * Internet Explorer 6 & 7 & 8
    * Safari 3.x & 4.x
    * Google Chrome
    * Mozilla Firefox 2 & 3 

Mac OSX intel 10.4.11 or newer

    * Safari 3.x & 4.x
    * Mozilla Firefox 2 & 3

[maccman → pqs]

Yes, it's a shame. Best thing to do is ask Yahoo to support it.

[nirmal]

Reminds me of http://www.streamfile.com/

Discussed on HN here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=252019

[surki]

any idea how NAT traversal is done?

[maccman → surki]

There's a paper explaining here: http://nutss.gforge.cis.cornell.edu/pub/imc05-tcpnat.pdf

I think that might make a good blog post.

[surki → maccman]

I was asking how they are doing it from browser. But it appears that we need to install a local client :(

[maccman → surki]

You need to install BrowserPlus - but that's an in-browser installation (without a restart) and is fairly seamless.

During the beta you also need to download/install a BP plugin. This is only because Yahoo haven't signed the plugin - and will install automatically when they have.

[est → surki]

Yahoo BrowserPlus, works with about 85% of routers