Re: browserver

On 10 August 2012 19:03, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://browserver.org/
> browserver(Hey all! I'm currently getting Hacker News'ed, so if this
> doesn't work for you the first time, please refresh and try again.)
>
> Hello! I've got some good news for you: your web browser has just been
> upgraded to a web *server*. It's responding to HTTP requests on the
> Internet as you read this.
>
> True story. You can try it yourself here:
> [ see your own link ]
>
> Here's what just happened:
>
>    1. You used curl to request a resource from [ see your own link ]
>    2. A browserver server <https://github.com/jed/browserver-node>received your request, and figured out that you wanted to talk to client
>    *q6zh45q6k6kfn7b9*, which is actually your browser.
>    3. The server then used an already-established websocket-like
>    connection (thanks to engine.io<https://github.com/learnboost/engine.io>)
>    to forward the request.
>    4. The browserver client <https://github.com/jed/browserver-client> in
>    this page responded, getting any necessary input from the browser (or from
>    you). The server then forwarded this response back to you.
>
> In other words, the open-source browserver server and client worked
> together to give your browser a real address on the Internet.
>
> So?
>
> Well, this means that you don't need to roll your own custom code to
> connect the various pieces of your web architecture to your end clients.
>
> Instead, you can move the complexity of your app to the edges by making
> your end clients first-class HTTP servers, and then use your existing
> HTTP-related infrastructure to communicate with them.
>
> For example, you could:
>
>    - Subscribe them directly to any webhook-capable API, such as Amazon
>    SNS.
>    - Send notifications to other decoupled web services whenever a client
>    connects/disconnects.
>    - Simplify development by using the same familiar node.js HTTP API on
>    both the client and server.
>
> To learn more about how browserver works, head on over to GitHub and check
> out the browserver server <https://github.com/jed/browserver-node> and browserver
> client <https://github.com/jed/browserver-client>.
>

Some interesting new features in chrome may allow the browser to act more
like a server.

socket.create("tcp", {}, function(_socketInfo) {
      socketInfo = _socketInfo;
      socket.listen(socketInfo.socketId, "127.0.0.1", 8080, 20,
function(result) {
        console.log("LISTENING:", result);
        socket.accept(socketInfo.socketId, onAccept);
      });
    });

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-app-samples/tree/master/webserver

With such functionality, it is maybe possible to imagine a read write web
that operates from browser to browser, rather than going through a third
party.


> browserver was brought to you by Jed Schmidt <https://github.com/jed>.
>