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		arunoda on Aug 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser 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?

simonster on Aug 10, 2012 [–]

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.

arunoda on Aug 10, 2012 | [–]

Great. Thanks for the info.

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