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(A bit off-topic) Locally hosted web apps are on the rise (Mailpile, Camlistore, etc.) and remembering which app runs on which port is neither user-friendly no
by saljam 13y ago
(A bit off-topic)
Locally hosted web apps are on the rise (Mailpile, Camlistore, etc.) and remembering which app runs on which port is neither user-friendly nor scalable. More so if you start to consider multiple users on the same machine.
Maybe there's a need for a usable reverse proxy just for local web apps?
It would also be neat if browsers could speak HTTP over some IPC that isn't TCP on some random port. Maybe UNIX sockets in ~/.run? This would delegate read/write permissions to the OS.
- thwest 13y agoOne time I hacked chromium to skip the socket and send the HTTP directly to the embedded python wsgi app. In the end we couldn't use it because we needed some 64 bit only code running behind the wsgi and chromium only builds 32 bit on windows. Not that it would really be ideal either. Your app is too easily confused for a legit chromium window.