Something new and interesting... Wirehog.com

[ibneko]

http://www.wirehog.com/

The most interesting... "transfer files through firewalls and NATs"

What is it? looks like a new filesharing program, but based a) around socializing, then b) sharing. And it's integrated with theFaceBook, but I'm not too sure how integrated it is... It could easily be shut down by laq inforcement though, since it _looks_ (at first glance) like it runs off a central server..................

I can send out invites - you'll need one to download the fileserver/client thing - yes, there's MacOS X and windows support - yay for them - it's python based, unless I'm mistaken. If you want an invite, comment. My only requirement is that you be a current friend. I'm not going to give invites to random strangers, 'cause you know, you could be evil people trying to examine and break the nice new system.

I'd like to know how it transfers files through firewalls and NATs. Probably through other clients who are open? Or maybe by adding the request to a message that's transmitting back to someone behind a firewall? I dunno.......

Comments

[fbartho.livejournal.com]

it does a good job at transferring files via firewalls I've played with it a tiny bit I had to get an invitation a couple months back... it was rough, lol because only 3 schools had access to it, so I had to find friends at those schools to invite me...

You should keep your client running though... otherwise it can't retrieve images to post on thefacebook and it can't let other people see your files

its a thing of scope you need to be a friend of someone on wirehog to get their files, and its a direct connection... I'm curious how they handle firewalls on both ends...

I can imagine that each person's client handles getting things in through the firewall, but I don't see how that would work right unless they route files being transferred through their own server... because if firewalls were at both ends... the requester by itself couldn't have an address to connect to to request stuff...

Its not a P2P app... but since its python based maybe you can see the code... unless its a compiled version of it...

go to fbartho.wirehog.com to see my stuff

[fbartho.livejournal.com]

update when you browse wirehog friends it retrieves data from 127.0.0.1 at some point during the process... according to firefox... now at least with windows that equates to localhost which equates to your machine, which means your wirehog client is serving it some of the information... which is really interesting...