AirConsole does not work with itch.io app browser about airconsole-api HOT 3 CLOSED

A few notes on the itch app:

• There are some troubleshooting notes in the manual: https://itch.io/docs/itch/integrating/troubleshooting-guide.html
• If you're on Windows, it installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%/itch/app-25.3.0
• If you set IMMEDIATE_NOSE_DIVE=1 (as an environment variable) before starting itch.exe, it'll open developer tools before launching an HTML5 game, which might give you more details than starting the game and only then pressing Shift+F12
• Games are served from a custom protocol, itch-cave://, but it's registered as a "secure" protocol within chrome, so, for example, the Fetch API works, Websocket works, see https://fasterthanlime.itch.io/ws-test

Here are the versions it currently ships with (tl;dr Chrome 61)

I'm not familiar with how AirConsole works, so if anyone posts a few details about it I might be able to figure out what makes them not play together nice.

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itch-cave:// is a problem. We require everything to be served over https or http.

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itch-cave:// is a problem. We require everything to be served over https or http.

Can you expand on that a little bit? What are the technical reasons that make it so that games won't work unless the protocol happens to be http or https?

As I mentioned, that protocol, in the app, behaves exactly like https - all features are enabled for it (including WebSockets, Fetch, Web workers, anything https allows you to do in Chrome). It just happens to have a different name. I'm having a hard time understanding how that makes any difference to the AirConsole runtime (or how it's related to the error trace posted in the original message!)

(We cannot serve games over a protocol named "https", because it would either interfere with the actual https protocol, or would involve generating+trusting a local certificate, which has proved problematic in the past).

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