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> The browser and OS vendors don't provide high quality APIs for this purpose Which APIs should be provided by operating systems and/or browsers? On Windows,
by cesarb 10y ago
> The browser and OS vendors don't provide high quality APIs for this purpose
Which APIs should be provided by operating systems and/or browsers?
On Windows, browsers (at least Firefox) do provide an API for antivirus scanners, as can be seen by the pause after every download on slower machines with an antivirus scanner (which, the last time I saw it, explicitly mentioned "scanning for viruses" on the download status). On Linux, the operating system kernel provides the fanotify API, which was designed to allow an antivirus scanner to scan every newly created file. What other APIs do you believe should be added?
- Spooky23 10y agoI think there should be an API that allows applications to use a managed service to read browser network IO without relying on a proxy. Think ICAP for Chrome. That way you can leave the network path intact, not worry about proxy bypass, and keep crypto operations in the browser.