Hello Jonathan, changed the Subject to make it clearer that this is a different topic.
Jonathan Aquilina via cockpit-devel [2025-03-11 13:46 +0000]: > Probably a stupid question here but what advantage does having its own custom > created web server offer over something like nginx with reverse proxy, > apache, or even something super lightweight such as lighttpd or even caddy? Because none of these can do what cockpit-ws does: authentication, PAM session setup, connecting to cockpit-bridge, exposing and driving the websocket, speaking the JSON wire protocol, etc. But you are right for the portion of being a generic web server to serve the *.html/*.css/*.js files) - this should go away (many thousand lines of C code) and be replaced with a standard Python/Rust/etc. libary, so that we only implement the cockpit specific bits. That's what triggered all this discussion and researching for a better design of the web server to minimize it in the future. > In my case in regards to the use of cockpit. I love that i can run it locally > on my own linux laptop and manage any of my linux servers with it and in a > secure manner as well. So for you that's a http://localhost:9090 case then? (no TLS/https). That will be fine. > Having a proper LE certificate will be amazing to have it out of the box on > install. Sure, but that's not going to happen. Setting up certificates is hard, and absolutely not automatable. There's a reason why it has taken decades to even get to where we are now, and it's still far from done. 😅 Thanks, Pitti -- _______________________________________________ cockpit-devel mailing list -- cockpit-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org To unsubscribe send an email to cockpit-devel-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/cockpit-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
