Would it somehow be possible to make a SWF client co-operate with a server so that the server would do the listening?
How about SWF sandboxing and policy files? Are they a problem? On 8/21/07, Mark Winterhalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/21/07, Testi Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Would it theoretically be possible to build a BitTorrent client with Flash? > > Yes, but... > > You can't listen at sockets, so all SWF based clients would be "not > connectible", those clients wouldn't be able to connect to each other. > It would be bad for the network. > So, if you had the original seeder as the only connectible node, and > the rest all SWF based clients, then all clients would have to > transfer all data from the seeder and there wouldn't be /any/ p2p > traffic. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
