Running WebRTC without SIP
HTML5 websockets can be defined by ws:// followed by the URL in the server field while readying a WebRTC client for registration. This enables bidirectional, duplex communications with server-side processes, that is, server-side push events to the client. It also enables the handshake after sharing media metadata such as ports, codecs, and so on.
It should be noted that WebRTC works in an offer/answer mode and has ways of traversing the Network Address Translation (NAT) and firewalls by means of Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE). ICE makes use of the Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) protocol and its extension, Traversal Using Relay NAT (TURN). This is covered later in the chapter.
Sending media over ...
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