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Comment by arunoda | Hacker News Reader

Nice attempt. But your title is misleading.

You just listen for a URL and forward it to the browser with socket.io (Pusher, Pubnub are some commercial services for this)

If I can change some content in your webpage by just curling localhost, I can judge the title you put :)

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So, it's not a new take on POW (plain old webserver): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/pow-plain-old... which apparently have been abandoned, and could use a fork (source at: http://davidkellogg.com/pow/ )?

Apparently there's a newer variation at:

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/browser-server/

and of course there's Opera's Unity.

I do get that the idea is that it "just" uses javascript (the server appears to be down, so I'm actually guessing) -- but when such projects already exist, I kind of expected more...

I thing they use some kind of native addon (I don't know how FF addon works) to do this.

Unfortunately Chrome's native client(NaCl) does not support TCP yet! So I think something like this impossible in chrome? Any ideas?

POW is presumably written in JavaScript using Mozilla's asynchronous socket APIs. I've written a similar HTTP server before.

Chrome has a JS socket API for extensions as well, but it doesn't currently support TCP listening.

Great. Thanks for the info.

So he still needs to host something that forwards information to the browser? Shucks.

Yes, he needs to have a Node/Socket.io server somewhere.

Indeed, this isn't entirely original, and I know services like this exist. To me, this is what PUSHER's API _should_ have been.

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