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So, it's not a new take on POW (plain old webserver): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/pow-plain-old... which apparently have been abandoned, and could use a fork (source at: http://davidkellogg.com/pow/ )?

Apparently there's a newer variation at:

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/browser-server/
and of course there's Opera's Unity.

I do get that the idea is that it "just" uses javascript (the server appears to be down, so I'm actually guessing) -- but when such projects already exist, I kind of expected more...



I thing they use some kind of native addon (I don't know how FF addon works) to do this.

Unfortunately Chrome's native client(NaCl) does not support TCP yet! So I think something like this impossible in chrome? Any ideas?


POW is presumably written in JavaScript using Mozilla's asynchronous socket APIs. I've written a similar HTTP server before.

Chrome has a JS socket API for extensions as well, but it doesn't currently support TCP listening.


Great. Thanks for the info.




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