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web2: client <-> server web3: client <-> client <-> client



When's a client become a server?

If you need to connect to a fullnode which is running in a datacenter somewhere whose sole purpose is to service these kinds of requests, surely it's just a server.


From the blog post I understood this still talks from the browser client to some gateway server, which might then be part of a p2p network. Which would certainly be required if the library uses http for communication. Or did I got it wrong and a native browser plugin enables other means of communication?


web1: client <-> client

Web2 happened for a lot of very good reasons.




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