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Could you make a 'bridge' somehow between the two (browser extension?)


> WebTorrent is designed to match the BitTorrent protocol as closely as possible, so when the time comes, existing BitTorrent clients can easily add WebRTC support and swarm with web-based torrent clients, "bridging" the web and non-web worlds. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8280436


For Firefox, probably. I don't think Chrome extensions allow you to use sockets.

EDIT: confirmed: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152875




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