Implementing a Peer-to-Peer Web Browser for Publishing and Searching Web Pages on Internet

Abstract

This paper presents an implementation of a P2P Web browser, called Web2Peer', for publishing web pages on Internet through peer-to-peer networks. The present proposal overcomes the problems involving entities dependency and content availability, by the user side, changing the conventional way used to publish Web pages on Internet. The proposed solution allows anyone who has a computer connected to the Internet, even through domestic ADSL connection, to publish Web pages on their own machines. By using a peer-to-peer Web browser another mechanism for searching Web pages is offered based on DHT (Distributed Hash Tables). The user interface, provided by Web2Peer, carries all functions needed for creating, editing, publishing, searching, downloading and replicating the web pages on the peer-to-peer network.