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

I had this idea, too, the killer application is actually demos and talks, I think. The speaker sets up their browser server, asks the audience to hit a URL, and then demonstrates in real time aspects of the system.

It's also a very neat way to bring WebKit Inspector to bear on server style code. Glad you did it! I presume that you have a wildcard subdomain at the DNS level and then some Node parsing magic to correctly proxy. Why subdomains though? Why not just a tag like browserver.com/29adfija02 ?

jedschmidt on Aug 10, 2012 [–]

I chose hosts over paths for disambiguation because I want the request passed to the proxy to be as close as possible to that passed to the browser.

BrendanEich on Aug 12, 2012 | [–]

Also you get same-origin protection, FWIW.

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