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RTCIceCandidate.foundation

The RTCIceCandidate interface's read-only foundation property is a string which uniquely identifies the candidate across multiple transports. As such, the foundation can be used to correlate candidates that are present on multiple RTCIceTransport objects

Syntax

var foundation = RTCIceCandidate.foundation;

Value

A DOMString which uniquely identifies the candidate across all RTCIceTransports on which it is available.

Note: If port is null — and port is supported by the user agent — passing the candidate to addIceCandidate() will fail, throwing an OperationError exception.

Usage notes

Consider this SDP attribute line (a-line) which describes an ICE candidate:

a=candidate:4234997325 1 udp 2043278322 192.168.0.56 44323 typ host

The field "4234997325" is the foundation.

Example

This code snippet uses the foundation of two candidates to determine if they're actually the same candidate.

if (candidate1.foundation == candidate2.foundation) {
  /* the two candidates are the same, even if they're on
     different transports */
}

Specifications

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Mobile
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCIceCandidate/foundation