[mrskitch]

Yup, There’s a lot going on here. Currently the tool uses a fixed IP for the running browser. That’s why you’re seeing that Cloudflare issue.

As far as the hovering goes, the canvas element is “mirroring” interactions back through to the underlying page. When Devtools are active, this triggers chromium to render hover effects in its GUI. This then gets sent back to the canvas element in the debugging page.

It’s a lot of network traffic and Synchronization... but once everything is setup it works fairly seamlessly

[f430]

can you explain how this is architected? you are running a browser on a server and its streaming the video to the canvas? where does the cloudflare bit come in?

very interesting project!

[mrskitch]

You’ve got it: the core service listens for inbound Upgrade http requests, starts a browser, then funnels the connection into the browser.

This debugger simply sits on top of all that, and puts the code/execution context in the browser versus the server. Cloud flare is simply detecting that our server IP is a known headless chrome instance, and is serving their bot detection check

[f430]

Thanks for your answer! do you do anything to lower the latency between the user and the client?