Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131

Post by cageface » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 9:41 AM UTC

1oooqooq wrote: post #52

nzoschke wrote: post #9

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I'm hacking on a Tauri web app that needs to bridge to talking UDP protocols literally as we speak. While Tauri seems better than ever for cross platform native apps, it's still a huge step to take to allow my web app access to lower level. Rust toolchain, Tauri plugins, sidecar processes, code gen, JSON RPC, all to let my web app talk to my network. Seems great that Chrome continues to bundle these pieces into the b…

with so many multiplatform gui toolkits today, tauri and electron are really bad choices

Post by immibis » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 9:43 AM UTC

apitman wrote: post #41

huggingmouth wrote: post #32

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That changed (ahm.. will change) with ipv6. I was surprised to see that I can reach residential ipv6 lan hosts directly from the server. No firewalls, no nat. This remains true even with abusive isps that only give out /64 blocks. That said, I agree that peer to peer will never be seemless thanks mostly to said abusive isps.

IPv6 isn't going to happen. Most people's needs are met by NAT for clients and SNI routing for servers. We ran out of IPv4 addresses years ago. If it was actually a problem it would have happened then. It makes me said for the p2p internet but it's true.

Post by immibis » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 9:47 AM UTC

theamk wrote: post #39

huggingmouth wrote: post #32

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That changed (ahm.. will change) with ipv6. I was surprised to see that I can reach residential ipv6 lan hosts directly from the server. No firewalls, no nat. This remains true even with abusive isps that only give out /64 blocks. That said, I agree that peer to peer will never be seemless thanks mostly to said abusive isps.

I sure hope not, this will bring in a new era for internet worms. If some ISPs are not currently firewalling all incoming IPv6 connections, it's a major security risk. I hope some security researcher raises boise about that soon, and the firewalls will go closed by default.

Post by nmfisher » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 9:59 AM UTC

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Longest Yard is my favorite Q3 map, but for some reason I cannot use my mouse (?) in your version of the Quake 3 demo.

Interesting, what browser and OS?

Post by eitland » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 10:41 AM UTC

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That doesn't really make it any better, if you ask me. The entire Isolated Web Apps proposal is a massive breakdown of the well-established boundaries provided by browsers. Every user understands two things about the internet: 1) check the URL before entering any sensitive data, and 2) don't run random stuff you download. The latter is heavily enforced by both Chrome and Windows complaining quite a bit if you're tryi…

The last time I used Chrome was about 3 years ago. You have a choice.