Leveraging ws://localhost provided by local IPFS node #177
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So js-ipfs running on a web page loaded via
https://
is able to connect tows://localhost:port
provided by IPFS node running on the same machine as browser – PoC in ipfs/kubo#5251 (comment)We could enable WS transport in IPFS Desktop / Brave, but not sure how to leverage it in js-ipfs. This feels related to some prior discussions in ipfs/js-ipfs#3022 and work made by @Gozala, but is also bit brittle (eg.
localhost
WS dials can be blocked for security reasons)Open questions:
/dnsaddr
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