The README merged in #2216 claimed browsers cannot reach netmux and
that both transports require Hydra. Wrong on the central point:
netmux serves WebSocket natively on its ordinary game ports
(mux/src/websocket.cpp, RFC 6455) with first-byte protocol detection
sharing each port between telnet and WebSocket (#1074/#2193,
proto_detect_window), and the handshake accepts both /wsclient and /
— which is exactly the path js/connection.js dials. The minimal
browser deployment is netmux plus static files, no extra process;
Hydra is the OPTIONAL layer for session resume, multi-game links,
stored credentials, and gRPC-Web.
The error came from concluding absence out of a truncated grep: the
file listing was piped through head and mux/proxy's matches filled the
window before mux/src/websocket.cpp appeared. A truncated listing is
not a complete listing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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