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Sleek simple solution, just like bittorrent.

Wonder if it can be used to peer-to-peer other stuff, other than file downloads. CDN boosting ? Ajax broadcast content ( e.g. NewsFeeds, live marketing notifications )?

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Yeah, for that you would want to use the general purpose API (which is AJAX like). See https://github.com/Peer5/P2PXHR. It's still a little under-documented, so let me know if you're having trouble hacking it...

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