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Re:The Emularity by petercooper on Friday January 23, 2015 @05:00PM (#8937583)
No, there are various other mechanisms now, perhaps the most useful and widespread for this situation being WebSocket. It's not without limitations though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket

And it's not quite "the browser" in the usual sense, but Chrome Apps (and, I believe, extensions?) get access to TCP and UDP APIs: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_network

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Re:The Emularity by arohner on Friday January 23, 2015 @06:00PM (#8937920)
But websockets doesn't give you raw tcp, right? Do they have a proxy somewhere?
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Re:The Emularity by bai0 on Friday January 23, 2015 @07:30PM (#8938267)
Not really a proxy - it's pppd in Linux with a vty redirected to a socket. More like a cloud-based dialup ISP that tunnels over existing connections than a proxy.
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Re:The Emularity by comex on Friday January 23, 2015 @06:22PM (#8938017)
Yes, the article states they have a proxy.
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