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		amelius on July 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protoco... The mess that requires legitimate services to pierce through firewalls. https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-Piercing/x58.html

pantaloony on July 13, 2020 [–]

It’s also part of why so many things that’d be better on TCP sockets end up being implemented on top of HTTP... and then actually see adoption in that form. A combo of JS limitations and firewalls aggressively blocking everything that’s not HTTP.

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