DOMException: Error processing ICE candidate

Question

I get this error DOMException: Error processing ICE candidate when I try to add an ice candidate. Here's the candidate:

candidate:1278028030 1 udp 2122260223 10.0.18.123 62694 typ host generation 0 ufrag eGOGlVCnFLZYKTsc network-id 1

Moreover, it doesn't always happen - other time everything goes smoothly. I can't reproduce a consistent pattern where it would throw this error. Any ideas how to go about solving this / debugging it would be appreciated!

Answer 1

This problem is almost totally undocumented, and to make matters worse only Google seems to be implementing the w3 webRTC standard. They also deviate from this standard.

However, as it is most likely that this will be occurring on Chrome (I have not checked Firefox, and Safari does not implement getUserMedia()), this error message obtained by launching Chrome from the console will likely help:

[ERROR:rtc_peer_connection_handler.cc(1439)] Error processing ICE candidate. [ERROR:webrtcsession.cc(1134)] ProcessIceMessage: ICE candidates can't be added without any remote session description. 

So there, you can't add ICE candidates without setting remote description as according to the most recent build of Chrome, and as it is 2017 with no webRTC progress except for Facebook Messenger, this looks to be valid for the foreseeable future.

So remember to call

if(!peerConnection || !peerConnection.remoteDescription.type){     //push candidate onto queue... } 

and after setting the remote description, iterate the queue to add candidates with the peer connection in the right state!