Yeah, that's why it's better than having a HTTP server listening on localhost. And why listening on localhost is often not a good idea.
But UNIX sockets are not available on all platforms, which defeats a bit the general idea of a browser. Windows got UNIX socket support a while ago, but I don't know how well it works.
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Yeah, that's why it's better than having a HTTP server listening on localhost. And why listening on localhost is often not a good idea.
But UNIX sockets are not available on all platforms, which defeats a bit the general idea of a browser. Windows got UNIX socket support a while ago, but I don't know how well it works.
What would be wrong with browsers only supporting UNIX domain sockets on platforms where they exist?