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Welcome to the Torque Sockets project

Torque Sockets is a cross-platform, multi-environment connection-based unreliable network protocol and associated implementation library and browser plugin.

The TorqueSocket javascript web interface plugin description can be found here:
TorqueSocket API text description

The torque_sockets C networking API can be found here:
torque_sockets C API

Current to-do list before 1.0’ness is achieved: (bulleted items done)

• Move portions of TNL necessary to create torque_sockets into torque_sockets repository
• Build baseline torque_sockets sources
• Build plugin harness for torque_sockets
• Create torque_sockets C API definition and review with BenG, AlexSc, timg, nardo.
• Build C command-line torque_sockets Client/Server test programs
• Build NPAPI plugin for JS access to torque_sockets
• Build JS TNP Client/Server test programs
• Port tnl to tnl2 to work atop torque_sockets
• Compile tnl2 test programs working atop torque_sockets
• Define arranged connection API extension for torque_sockets, based on TNL master/comm servers
• Compile C test programs under Google’s Native Client and test
• Implement TorqueSocket API atop torque_sockets w/o introduced connections
• Implement simple javascript talk program
  - fix double challenge response issue
  - fix exit crash in FF plugin (background thread related?)
  - Implement Bonjour’s Port Mapping Protocol
  - Demonstrate PMP in talk program with “public internet address”
  - Implement API hooks for packet drop testing
  - Demonstrate packet drop tests in talk
• Implement introduced connections
• Implement server-introduced javascript chat example
  - Implement C++ TorqueSocket client
  - Create tnl2 compile option to talk to TorqueSocket in remote plugin instance
  - build nacl tnl2_test to TorqueSocket example program
  - add property support (set/get) to type_database
  - add property support to plugin_framework
  - add property support to state block transmission in tnl2
  - Compile tnl2 test programs under Google’s Native Client and test
  - Create web site for torque_sockets home
  - Full documentation review pass, doxygen build
  - Launch torque_sockets web site / announce torque_sockets 1.0 to the world
  - Full documentation review pass, doxygen build
  - Launch tnl2 to the world