Beaker is a discontinued
free and open-source
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web browser
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developed by Blue Link Labs. Beaker Browser
peer-to-peer
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technology allows users to
self-publish websites and
web app
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s directly from the browser, without the need to set up and administrate a separate
web server
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or host their content on a third-party server. All files and websites are transferred using
Dat, a hypermedia peer-to-peer protocol, which allows files to be shared and hosted by several users. The browser also supports the
HTTP protocol to connect to traditional servers.
Beaker is built using the
Electron
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framework and therefore uses the
Chromium
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Chromium ...
browser as a renderer for webpages.
Content sharing
Files stored in a local folder can be published as a Dat website and made accessible to other users through the peer-to-peer protocol.
The files are
seeded from the local folder while the browser is active. To make them also available while the browser is closed, the user may use several alternative options to host the content:
* Ask other users of the browser to share a copy. The content will be accessible as long as any of the users are using the Beaker browser.
* Publish the content through a third-party server.
* Create a permanent self-hosted ''homebase'' server
for the Dat protocol, and publish the content in it.
See also
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Dat (software)
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Comparison of web browsers
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General information
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Peer-to-peer web hosting
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Distributed computing
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The components of a distributed system commu ...
References
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