D Web Services Application Potential?

[Sebastiaan Koppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 17:25:17 UTC, Etienne wrote:
> I can't share source but the idea is simple. You configure a 
> DNS subdomain my.domain.com => 127.0.0.1, and test that address 
> with javascript when a logins to the public website, if it 
> doesn't work you show a message "plugin required". The user 
> downloads the plugin and executes it, an elevation request is 
> asked once for the exec to copy itself to program files and to 
> register the service/daemon or open it (the only user 
> interaction required!), and then the page is opened in a new 
> browser window (borderless) or he can also refresh the page. 
> The plugin's reverse proxy delivers the AngularJs app that uses 
> Json models to populate the templates.

You can even get rid of the download popup by having a hosting 
daemon, which your JS instructs to download and run your web-app. 
It can do all the virtual-host routing, updating, what-not.

It does still requires an install, but only once.

A huge security risk if not properly sandboxed though.