[libnice] Any discussion on API to be able to supply ICE credentials (webrtc related)

[Olivier Crête]

Hi,

Adding webrtc-friendly features to libnice is definitely something we
care about. But not one is actively working on it. I guess add a simple
nice_agent_set_local_credentials() would be enough for this?

Olivier

On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 15:13 +0000, Stefan Håkansson LK wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> webrtc/rtcweb (implicitly) requires that it is possible to supply local 
> ICE credentials when starting ICE, see http://rtcweb-wg.github.io/jsep/.
> 
> I say "implicitly" since ICE credentials must be part of the initial 
> offer created by createOffer (section 5.2.1), but ICE processing is not 
> supposed to happen until a subsequent setLocal happens which could be 
> quite a bit later. Also, createOffer is not really supposed to "do" 
> anything, things are supposed to start as a result of setLocal meaning 
> that ICE processing should not start as a result of createOffer.
> 
> We're using libnice in our webrtc implementation (which is based on 
> gstreamer) https://github.com/EricssonResearch/openwebrtc and this is an 
> issue for being standards compliant.
> 
> My question is (obviously): are there any plans for changing libnice to 
> enable building webrtc compliant applications?
> 
> Stefan
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