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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_232__headless_webapp.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_232__headless_webapp.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a60ab383d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_232__headless_webapp.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Developed a way to run the webapp on a remote or headless computer. + +The webapp can now be started on a remote or headless computer, just +specify `--listen=address` to make it listen on an address other than +localhost. It'll print out the URL to open to access it. + +This doesn't use HTTPS yet, because it'd need to generate a +certificate, and even if it generated a self-signed SSL certificate, +there'd be no easy way for the browser to verify it and avoid a MITM. + +So `--listen` is a less secure but easier option; using ssh to forward +the webapp's port to the remote computer is more secure. + +(I do have an idea for a way to do this entirely securely, making +the webapp set up the ssh port forwarding, which I have written down +in [[webapp]].. but it would be rather complicated to implement.) + +---- + +Made the webapp rescan for transfers after it's been used to change a +repository's group. Would have been easy, but I had to chase down a +cache invalidation bug. |