From the previous discussion linked above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16563135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16563135 > I regularly encounter

From the previous discussion linked above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16563135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16563135 > I regularly encounter users who don’t accept that websites can access services on localhost or their intranet. These users understand that services bound to localhost are only accessible to software running on the local machine, and that their browser is running on the local machine – but somehow believe that accessing a website “transfers” execution somewhere else. It doesn’t work like that, but this is a common source of confusion.