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		James_K 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a user... Won't the browser still append the "Origin" field to WebSocket requests, allowing servers to reject them?

bstsb 4 months ago [–]

yes, and that's exactly how discord's websocket communication checks work (allowing them to offer a non-scheme "open in app" from the website).

they also had some kind of RPC websocket system for game developers, but that appears to have been abandoned: https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/rpc

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