Nishant Arora

Confirmed: - this issue still exists with the lates webui inside electron. - this is non issue on localhost loaded via web browser. Smelly Code: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/blob/main/src/webui/open-external.js Notes: - Looks both...

Thanks for submitting this issue @IngwiePhoenix, did you try using the standalone webui? you can find it here: https://webui.ipfs.io, you can set the API address in the settings: https://webui.ipfs.io/#/settings. Your...

Thanks @IngwiePhoenix for the quick revert, and apologies to whizzkid for unnecessary noise. Looks like there has been some effort in the past and got shut down: - https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/issues/714 -...

@IngwiePhoenix yep, that's the RPC api. kubo does not secure/authenticate that endpoint and it's pretty much up to the host to decide how the requests get secured. IIRC there are...

@SgtPooki I added a tasklist to the [parent comment](https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/issues/2441#issue-1640644630) Can you validate and if yes, I can create sub issues for those and we can prioritize this in the future.

@BigLep I believe this ask is only limited to RPC api exposed responsibly within the local area network, and not exposed to the public internet. On a different note, I...

Thanks for this issue @constraintAutomaton this sounds like an interesting idea, I tried opening a video link in my local VLC, while `http://localhost:/ipfs/` loaded almost instantly, resolving it over a...

@SgtPooki but how would webui trigger loading videos in an external player? are you thinking in terms of creating a custom m3u playlist that will point the player to a...

And it sorta works, I can add the stream url to VLC and it works (albeit slow) mostly as expected. I think this idea still has some weight, but if...

Thanks for submitting this issue @octylFractal, and for attaching the log files. `error.log` file is empty, did that have anything meaningful there? Can you try re-attaching the file? Under the...