Sending messages to webtorrents peers

[Fabiencdp]

Hello,
i wonder if there is a way to send custom message/data to peer who use webTorrent directly.
It work well using the simple-peer module, after doing all the signaling process i can send message with for example :

var peer = new Peer(options);
// Handle signaling process 
// ... 
peer.send("hey mate!")

and i receive it in the other browser using the "data" event.

Here is a way to do that directly with the webtorrent wires ? for example
torrent.wires[0].send("hey mate");

Thanks for your help !

[feross]

You can technically reach into the wire's private simple-peer object and call send() but you'll likely confuse the remote peer who will then just disconnect.

The correct way to implement this is to use the extension API in bittorrent-protocol which will send a standard message to the remote peer which advertises support for your extension. If the remote peer also has support for your extension, then you can send custom messages to each other.