Tags Tag archive: 'Signaling'

November 2, 2016

Fiddle of the week: Easy-peasy WebRTC Signaling

Contributed by Jan-Ivar Bruaroey,

If you think WebRTC signaling is too complicated, then this blog is for you (unless you dislike newfangled JavaScript).

I often hear this complaint: “Why isn’t WebRTC as simple as, say, Web Sockets?”, specifically that “negotiation is hard”. While it’s inherently more complicated to connect to another client than a server, I think this question has some merit with regard to the RTCPeerConnection API. Let’s see if we can make things simpler. (more…)