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The verge article mentions it's reasonably common and mentions some programs that do it. From the article, a tweet -------- They are far from alone, a quick
by graeme 7y ago
The verge article mentions it's reasonably common and mentions some programs that do it.
From the article, a tweet
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They are far from alone, a quick `lsof -i | grep LISTEN` shows that I have: Spotify, Keybase, KBFS, iTunes, Numi, https://t.co/MVSAJgN9yY… https://t.co/MVSAJgN9yY… All running locally listening web servers.
— Matthew Gregg (@braintube) July 9, 2019
- anaphor 7y agoThe spotify one is for spotify connect most likely. I'm guessing (although not sure, someone could verify it) that spotify connect requires some sort of authorization to work. Edit: here you go http://cgbystrom.com/articles/deconstructing-spotifys-builtin-http-server/ http://cgbystrom.com/articles/deconstructing-spotifys-builti...
- asveikau 7y agoDid they just imply that every listening socket is a web server?
- svenfaw 7y agoThey are mixing apples and oranges indeed.