Is there a way to connect 2 browsers without a server? Maybe with Websockets?

Question

I'm looking for a way to connect 1 browser to another without having to incur the network delay of having a server in between.

It doesn't look like HTML5 WebSockets will work because I couldn't find a way to listen for connections in Javascript, only establish a connection.

Does anyone know how to do this? (Connect 2 browsers directly? Like via the 2 computers' IP's directly)

Answer 1

No, that is just not doable with JavaScript.

You'll need a client written in a language that has access to the OS' networking API.