announce node-httpp - run HTTP over UDP(HTTPP) with Node.js

[tom]

node-httpp is the part of HTTPP, that stands for HTTP over UDP and bring Web in P2P style against client/central-server.

It consists of three modules: udt.js, httpp.js, httpps.js, all them keep the same api as net.js/http.js/https.js.

It's simple to use node-httpp:
1. replace net with udt, http with httpp, https with httpps when require net/http/httpps modules.
2. the rest of things is same as HTTP.

I opensouce it on github:

https://github.com/InstantWebP2P/node-httpp

Best regards
  Tom

[Nathan Rajlich]

Sounds pretty cool. How come you did it as a fork of node rather than
an external module?

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[tom]

Making HTTPP as module or rewrite it in pure JS is a plan. 

Best regards
  tom

[Dean Mao]

hopefully it's a big plan then...  I don't think i'm going to recompile node just to try this out :-P

[Nathan Rajlich]

Tom, it is do-able (albeit undocumented) to hook into *which* stream
the Node "http" module uses. See my node-icecast Client class[0] for
an example. You should be able to return one of your "udt" streams in
the createConnection function and then the core "http" module would
use that.

This way you can do it in just JS and keep it an external module.

[tom]

I will distribute the binary release for easy usage in short term.

best regards
  Tom

[Nathan Rajlich]

Dude, -1. Nobody wants an unnecessary fork of node. Extract the code
so it can be used as a proper external module and I guarantee you'll
get more adoption.

[Haroon Dilshad]

How should I build/install it? Specific steps would be a big help, I'm getting this error Error: Cannot find module 'httpp'

[tom]

the build steps are same as Node.js:

1.  https://github.com/InstantWebP2P/node-httpp

2.  cd node-httpp; ./configure && make install

check on https://github.com/InstantWebP2P/node-httpp

Best regards

  Tom

[Nuno Job]

`horsejs` is that you?