Browse HTTP over AF_UNIX





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Anyone know of a browser that supports this?



I've written a service using NodeJS and express and I'd like to limit its use to the local user 0o700 and I figured the best way to do that is using a UNIX domain socket.



Only question remains: how do I communicate with it from a browser window? Most browsers don't seem to support something along the lines of a http+unix://... scheme.



The communication needn't be two-way but that would be nice and I've considered the following:




  • Native messaging through a browser extension

  • Registering a protocol handler for my specific application which just transforms a URI into a curl. i.e. app://<data> => curl -X POST -d "<data>" --unixsocket ...


Are there other ways of doing this that I'm overlooking? Any ideas would be appreciated.










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    Anyone know of a browser that supports this?



    I've written a service using NodeJS and express and I'd like to limit its use to the local user 0o700 and I figured the best way to do that is using a UNIX domain socket.



    Only question remains: how do I communicate with it from a browser window? Most browsers don't seem to support something along the lines of a http+unix://... scheme.



    The communication needn't be two-way but that would be nice and I've considered the following:




    • Native messaging through a browser extension

    • Registering a protocol handler for my specific application which just transforms a URI into a curl. i.e. app://<data> => curl -X POST -d "<data>" --unixsocket ...


    Are there other ways of doing this that I'm overlooking? Any ideas would be appreciated.










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      Anyone know of a browser that supports this?



      I've written a service using NodeJS and express and I'd like to limit its use to the local user 0o700 and I figured the best way to do that is using a UNIX domain socket.



      Only question remains: how do I communicate with it from a browser window? Most browsers don't seem to support something along the lines of a http+unix://... scheme.



      The communication needn't be two-way but that would be nice and I've considered the following:




      • Native messaging through a browser extension

      • Registering a protocol handler for my specific application which just transforms a URI into a curl. i.e. app://<data> => curl -X POST -d "<data>" --unixsocket ...


      Are there other ways of doing this that I'm overlooking? Any ideas would be appreciated.










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      Anyone know of a browser that supports this?



      I've written a service using NodeJS and express and I'd like to limit its use to the local user 0o700 and I figured the best way to do that is using a UNIX domain socket.



      Only question remains: how do I communicate with it from a browser window? Most browsers don't seem to support something along the lines of a http+unix://... scheme.



      The communication needn't be two-way but that would be nice and I've considered the following:




      • Native messaging through a browser extension

      • Registering a protocol handler for my specific application which just transforms a URI into a curl. i.e. app://<data> => curl -X POST -d "<data>" --unixsocket ...


      Are there other ways of doing this that I'm overlooking? Any ideas would be appreciated.







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