Canister running Web Socket Server

Developers
1

Hello everyone,

Is there a way to run a Web Socket Server inside a canister? I would like to use a canister as signaling server to establish a WebRTC connection between two peers. For this I need each peer to be notified by the canister when the other peer sends an ICE candidate.

I guess there is a way to subscribe to a canister otherwise I don’t see how messaging apps built on the IC could work (unless they keep polling for new messages which I don’t think is best). Let me know if there are other approaches to solve this problem.

Thanks a lot in advance :slight_smile:

1 Like
2

I don’t think that is currently possible, but there are other teams working on the same problem. See 🏝️ The Island Collective 🏝️ A Social VR Canister: Alpha Release
You might want to connect with them.