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Afaik wasm cannot open network sockets. The segfault is unfortunate though

• s-macke 11mo ago
  You can write a network device driver, which exports the network packages into JavaScript. The author already wrote a console device. So, not much of a deal. https://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasm/blob/master/patches/kernel/0010-Add-Wasm-console-support.patch https://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasm/blob/master/patche...
  • seanw265 11mo ago
    Doable for http and https, but if you're running it in a browser environment, you'll eventually run into issues with CORS and other protocols. To get around this you need a proxy server running elsewhere that exposes the lower layers of the network stack.
    • s-macke 11mo ago
      This is exactly what [0] does. Try it out. If you know the IP you can even log in to another open browser window via telnet. [0] https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k
      • seanw265 11mo ago
        Aha! Now I see I'm talking to the expert on the topic ;) Thanks for the link. I'll check this out.