Dijjer

Dijjer is a peer-to-peer web cache. It is "pure" P2P because it relies on the computers of those using it, and is almost completely decentralized.

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Dijjer is similar in concept to BitTorrent but does not rely on a tracker or on a download client. It is also similar to Freenet both in that every participant in the network caches content on their disks, and in that it features a local web interface (listening on port 9115) that displays open connections and active downloads.

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For example, to download the file at http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/movingimages/Mix_Tape.mov, one would instead use http://127.0.0.1:9115/http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/movingimages/Mix_Tape.mov to route the request through Dijjer, which will attempt to download the requested file from connected peers.

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The Dijjer client, having received enough data from peers or from the source URL, will push this data to the requesting application, which is generally the web browser.

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Its only implementation to date is written in Java and released under the GPL. It is currently an beta version.

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