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I have tried to understand whether I could run an HTTP server in my browser that others in my network (or even publicly) could access. I am unable to find this in clear terms in your documentation.

Will I be able to serve a static website from my browser to others in the web?

This would be a nice feature. But I'm almost certain browsers don't provide an API that would allow this. (Unless it was communicating with a piece of software running outside the browser that could forward traffic in some way.)

@ids1024 Yes, that makes sense. The socket API seemed to imply you could make an HTTP connection. It was unclear whether that was about inside a website to a local http client or not.

Although I haven't tried it, I believe the socket API in Browsix is only usable for IPC. You can make a request to a server running inside Browsix from another program inside Browsix.

That makes sense. You think the team will answer here? Otherwise will close the issue

We were talking about this over in the gundb gitter. In theory, an adapter could be made to work with webrtc. Will I be the one to make that happen? Probably not. Would it be awesome? Probably yes.