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Wow, Chrome is shipping a Direct Sockets API. Now you can establish TCP and UDP connections directly from the browser. This will ship in version 131 behind a feature gate.

https://chromestatus.com/feature/6398297361088512

Mozilla wants no part of it.

Wow, Chrome is shipping a Direct Sockets API. Now you can establish TCP and UDP connections directly from the browser. This will ship in version 131 behind a feature gate.

https://chromestatus.com/feature/6398297361088512

Mozilla wants no part of it. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/431

For those that need to connect to TCP services, I also wrote a web socket proxy a while back. Might be useful for some of you. =)

For those that need to connect to TCP services, I also wrote a web socket proxy a while back. Might be useful for some of you. =)

https://github.com/zquestz/ws-tcp-proxy

The reason, on the surface, actually seems pretty strong. Citing Websocket issues as similar prior problems is persuasive to me, again on the surface. Fully ready to be convinced 180 because a lot of the stuff is super in the technical weeds.