longchuan1985/node-httpp

Run HTTP over UDP with Node.js for P2P and Peer Web

node-httpp

HTTPP - Run HTTP over UDP and Bring Web in Peer or P2P styles.

It consists of four modules: udt.js, httpp.js, udts.js, httpps.js, that keeps the same api like net.js/http.js/tls.js/https.js.

It's simple to use node-httpp: 1. replace net with udt, http with httpp, tls with udts, https with httpps when require net/http/tls/httpps modules. 2. do the rest as http.

To build it manually, clone the repository and checkout v0.8-httpp branch firstly, then do steps as below.

discussion group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/iwebpp

Wiki page: https://github.com/InstantWebP2P/node-httpp/wiki/An-introduction-to-node-httpp

Features

• Run http and https over udp, taking udp high data transfer performance
• Configurable Congestion Control
• Per-socket network performance monitor
• Per-socket bandwidth limitation
• Multiplex connections on single udp port, saving system resources
• Extend client/central server style web service transparently
• Easy to use API, reuse existing http/web and node.js technology
• Support windows/linux/OSx, RaspberryPi, Android

TODO

• Support iOS, WP8
• Make node-httpp as Node.js module instead of fork
• Add more test cases
• Improve documents, RFC draft

third-party source

• UDT4 - http://udt.sourceforge.net/

Evented I/O for V8 javascript.

To checkout the sourcecode:

git clone https://github.com/InstantWebP2P/node-httpp.git
git checkout v0.8-httpp

To build:

Prerequisites (Unix only):

* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)

Unix/Macintosh:

./configure
make
make install

Cross compile for Raspberry Pi:

setup toolchain env first, then
source cross-compile-pi.sh

Cross compile for Android:

setup Android NDK env first, then
source android-configure NDK_PATH
make -C out  

If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:

export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$PYTHON ./configure
make
make install

Windows:

vcbuild.bat

To run the tests:

Unix/Macintosh:

make test

Windows:

vcbuild.bat test

To build the documentation:

make doc

To read the documentation:

man doc/node.1

Resources for Newcomers

• The Wiki
• nodejs.org
• how to install node.js and npm (node package manager)
• list of modules
• searching the npm registry
• list of companies and projects using node
• node.js mailing list
• irc chatroom, #node.js on freenode.net
• community
• contributing
• big list of all the helpful wiki pages