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Reputation: 21

How to establish a connection between peers based on COTURN server and using WebSockets only, without WebRTC

I installed and configured a COTURN server in an EC2 instance. Then, I did some preliminary tests to check its operation using Trickle ICE. Everything works fine. Now I want to establish a communication between peers without using WebRTC, using only WebSockets. I don't know how to do that, all the tutorials I found use WebRTC.

I would appreciate if you could point me in the right direction and give me some advice on how to use the COTURN server with WebSockets in NodeJS.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 439

Answers (1)

giavac
giavac

Reputation: 1008

In relation to the comments thread in the question, I think the best answer is that the TURN service (provided by coturn) and the signalling service (implemented over WebSocket) are two separate things.

A WebRTC application can use TURN for discovering its relay candidates, and share them with another party over any signalling system, including something built with WebSockets.

Time ago a proposal was made to use WebSocket as a transport for TURN, but it didn't become a standard and it's not supported by coturn (or any other TURN service I know).

Upvotes: 1

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