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In-memory Dat to HTTP gateway
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dat.localhost goes nowhere in Firefox #28

Closed garbados closed 5 years ago

garbados commented 5 years ago

Firefox does not handle *.localhost domains which means the localhosted experience of dat-gateway for Firefox users is broken.

ping @da2x

garbados commented 5 years ago

Recently the assignee of the linked bug was unassigned from it, leaving the issue dead in the water. I don't think we should expect *.localhost support in Firefox any time soon.

Therefore I suggest we parameterize the loopback hostname rather than using a top-level constant, e.g. switching to this.loopback over DAT_LOCALHOST_NAME. This variable can be supplied via a --loopback option in the CLI, which defaults to dat.localhost.

A workaround for Firefox is to set the loopback to a value set in /etc/hosts to point to localhost, like a fake domain name such as localhost.example, so that Firefox's faulty *.localhost handling doesn't kick in. (It redirects to http// rather than http://)

RangerMauve commented 5 years ago

SGTM. 💜