Right now, it is impossible to signal through the config if we want to use a transport just for dialing and not for listening, in fact, go-ipfs makes the hard decision of disabling any dialing from a transport from where we are not listening.
The issue is that with this design, we have to make something hacky/hard coded to enable the WebSockets transport within libp2p-swarm for dialing in the browser.
https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/blob/master/src/index.js#L97-L102
Ideas:
- Have a
dialer multiaddr addr to signal that no listener should be started, but it should be considered to dial anyway
- Have a more config option within the config.json that informs swarm to do that.
Right now, it is impossible to signal through the config if we want to use a transport just for dialing and not for listening, in fact, go-ipfs makes the hard decision of disabling any dialing from a transport from where we are not listening.
The issue is that with this design, we have to make something hacky/hard coded to enable the WebSockets transport within libp2p-swarm for dialing in the browser.
https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/blob/master/src/index.js#L97-L102
Ideas:
dialermultiaddr addr to signal that no listener should be started, but it should be considered to dial anyway