WICG/private-network-access
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6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2021-10-25 · latest 2025-08-20
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…doesn't allow it - local network services have to opt-in to being fetchable from public sites ( https://github.com/WICG/private-network-access ), although they're replacing it with a user-permission-based approach (…
comment by JJJollyjim · 2025-08-20 · in Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network? -
…around to trying to implement it yet) See this long, painful, multi-year discussion on the topic: https://github.com/WICG/private-network-access/issues/23
comment by rcxdude · 2025-06-06 · in A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network -
They define it the explainer this was originally based on: ( https://github.com/WICG/private-network-access/blob/main/exp... ) Quote: We extend the RFC 1918 concept of private IP addresses to build a model of network privacy. Concretely,…
comment by emushack · 2025-06-05 · in A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network -
…in a web app without proxying it through your own server, just because of this one edge case. [0] https://github.com/WICG/private-network-access
comment by LegionMammal978 · 2024-08-24 · in CORS Is Stupid -
…devices on the web in general. It's interesting to read, even though the results seem rather bleak. https://github.com/wicg/private-network-access/issues/23
comment by xg15 · 2021-11-16 · in Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks -
…to allow their web app to connect to a local node. Not possible in my smaller corporate sphere. https://github.com/WICG/private-network-access/issues/23
comment by noduerme · 2021-10-25 · in Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications