I wonder if you could "bypass" the browser by having a socket on your box that connected to a websocket server (?) that then forwarded your request to the remot

I wonder if you could "bypass" the browser by having a socket on your box that connected to a websocket server (?) that then forwarded your request to the remote box. I haven't had coffee so I'm probably missing something. Edit: https://github.com/mcavage/node-ssh-agent https://github.com/mcavage/node-ssh-agent is interesting. You could have a browser extension that connects back to a local daemon.