Need a module to talk bittorrent peer wire protocol in browser

[feross]

• Should work over any stream interface
• Use bops
• Use peer-wire-protocol module as a guide

[mafintosh]

Wouldn't peer-wire-protocol work in the browser using browserify?

[feross]

I gave it a shot but ran into problems because you used the node Buffer which doesn't exist in the browser. So, browserify adds it's own shoddy buffer implementation which is slow and has weird bugs. The right way to do it, as I understand it, is to use bops which works in both environments with the same API -- it uses Buffer in node and Uint8Array in the browser.

But you're right -- I should investigate more before doing a fork of peer-wire-protocol... Would you accept a pull request that uses bops and might decrease performance a bit (since with bops you sometimes have to do a copy where with Buffer you don't need to)?

[feross]

This task is finished. See bittorrent-protocol (fork of peer-wire-protocol) which works in the browser. It initially used bops but I switched it to just use normal Buffers with native-buffer-browserify which will be merged in browserify hopefully soon. I'm not sure what (if anything) is different in the fork, but I expect these changes can be merged upstream.

[mafintosh]

Sorry for not getting back to you. Looks great.
Just skimmed your source and overall it looks very similar. I'd be happy to include these changes in peer-wire-protocol and add you as a maintainer if you want (to avoid having two very similar modules)?