P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC(pairdrop.net) |
P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC(pairdrop.net) |
It also supports something it calls "Private Room," which doesn't require the endpoints to be on the same LAN. This also works well, at least with my phone on 5G and the Linux box ultimately connected with DOCSIS.
No idea how many intermediaries, if any, are involved with any of this, and for my normal purposes I don't care at all.
For a demo, go to <https://galene.org:8443/group/public/hn/>. Login twice in two different browser tabs (leave the password field empty). Click on the username of your partner, and choose Send file.
Transferring files shouldn't involve that central server, so you'd need to establish a direct connection between the users, and with network topologies those days, it will most likely require a relay between the two. It's not great.
I opened a tab and signed in as "username".
Then I opened another tab and signed in as "username" there, too.
Thus a shared chat exists with two users named "username".
Whatever this is, it is not the path of disambiguation.