Re: Re: Replacing web content.

Olaf, there is a project that is working on what you are interested in 
called Webtorrent.  I blog a bit about it here:

http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2004/10/webtorrent-bittorrent-extension-for_18.html

At 08:36 AM 10/15/2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > TCP/IP has a slow start issues.  Each time you click a link you can
> > see this.
>
>You can?
>What about persistent HTTP connections?
>
> > That is why we have ARP cache/proxy, DNS cache, cached
>
>Eh, ARP and DNS are UDP only.
>
> > routing tables, web Proxy cache servers, etc.  If you had one
> > connection to the actual site tracker, and spread that file bandwidth
> > out over multiple peers, save the files to cache, then view them from
> > cache - each link would open up much quicker.
> >
> > While I agree that one could take the concept of BitTorrent websites
> > and implement it very poorly, I also think that it could be done in a
> > way that would be benifitial.  Especially down the road.
> >
> > The reason I posted was to see if there is any RFC or discussion
> > boards currently on this topic.  While I can imaging taking the
>
>There is (AFAIK).
>There's a mod for a webserver and a mod for Mozilla that implements this.
>But I don't know the URL.
>
> > current source to make this concept a reality would take a skilled
> > programmer maybe a month or so, working 8 hours 5 days a week
> > (estimate)  I would imagine the RFC/concept phase could take much longer.
> >
>
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