[cm3]

How similar is this to Opera 12's built-in httpd?

[floatboth]

Yeah this reminded me of Opera Unite as well. It's not that similar really though. As I understand it:

Opera Unite was an isolated platform with prebuilt apps by Opera and custom apps you could download from an app store. FlyWeb is an API exposed to any web page.

Opera Unite gave you a public URL that was an Opera server reverse proxying to your local machine so you could share files, chat, etc. with your friends online. FlyWeb just publishes multicast DNS (Bonjour/Avahi/Zeroconf/etc.) service discovery records to your local network.

[onion2k]

Or Chrome's built-in webserver - https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-app-samples/tree/mast...

[kzahel]

That app can't serve a local directory. It has to make a copy to a sandbox filesystem first. Try this app instead: https://github.com/kzahel/web-server-chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-server-for-chr...)

[tree_of_item]

Chrome Apps are being killed on everywhere but Chrome OS though, so you won't be able to do this in a few years.

[lucb1e]

I had not heard Opera has httpd built-in, so it depends: what does Opera's httpd do?

[cm3]

Opera 12 had, which doesn't really exist anymore. It's Blink based now and I don't recall the feature being restored (yet).

http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/en/unite.html