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Re:Reimagining the Browser: Introducing Cloudflare Browser I... by billyzs on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:13PM (#24791015)
What would it take to get a self-hosted version of this, preferably using FireFox on the server? How hard would it be to get plugins working as well? Would this be essentially a way of using Blink/Servo based engine on i(Pad)OS?
Re:Reimagining the Browser: Introducing Cloudflare Browser I... by dane-pgp on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:38PM (#24791342)
I'm imagining a slightly weirder use case where the user is on a network which replaces TLS certificates with locally-issued ones (to allow snooping, but generally not tampering), so the connection needs another layer of encryption done in the application layer.

The user could load a locally saved (and audited) page in their browser which contains the JavaScript client that connects to the self-hosted version of this Cloudflare service. The client would require the user to enter a pre-shared secret which is used to encrypt and authenticate the data being sent back and forth with the server.

Re:Reimagining the Browser: Introducing Cloudflare Browser I... by heipei on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:15PM (#24791027)
Check out browserless for something that's the same direction: https://www.browserless.io/