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Can a browser run a web server with this?


Since it allows for accepting incoming TCP connections, this should allow for HTTP servers to run within the browser, although running directly on port 80/443 might not be supported everywhere (can't see it mentioned in the spec, but from what I remember on most *nix systems only root can listen on ports below 1024, though I might be mistaken since it's been a while)


I assume they would limit it to clients.




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