The panel was doing the HTTP call itself, which meant any mirror sitting
behind a Cloudflare-style anti-bot check returned "<!doctype html>…" for
a POST from Origin: file:// and JSON.parse choked on it. Moving the
fetch into index.js gets rid of the whole class of browser-context
interceptors (CORS preflights, captive portals, anti-bot pages) and
lets the addon look at the response body before trying to parse it —
an HTML body is now reported cleanly as "server returned an HTML page
instead of JSON".
While there, chain a small mirror list — translate.disroot.org,
translate.plausibility.cloud, lingva.ml — so a single mirror being down
does not take the feature with it. A user whose saved URL points at a
mirror that stopped resolving (translate.argosopentech.com is the
notable case) now transparently gets a translation from the next mirror
in line instead of a stack trace.
Verified end-to-end from Node against both a working URL and a dead
one; the dead one falls through to disroot as expected.
The browser — the consumer face of the stack. Native .bch support with the
resolver built in, so a user installs one app instead of modifying their
operating system. Named for the thread through the labyrinth: the chain is the
thread.
Scope
Electron shell (Chromium engine, no forking): tabs, address bar, history.
In-process .bch resolution — no system daemon, no NRPT, no OS
trust-store changes; reuses bns.js from the BNS repo as a library.
Record handling: h render, ip connect, p/s3 via in-app gateway,
u redirect.
TLS via cert-verify hook (Electron setCertificateVerifyProc) against the
BNS root / on-chain tls fingerprints — no OS store touched.
Provenance indicator: shows whether a page came from the chain / Sia / a
direct server, with NFT category and record type — the decentralized padlock.
Status: not started
Build it in its own session/repo. The ready-to-paste brief is
BROWSER-PROMPT.md (a reference copy in this folder; canonical source is
D:\Dev\NameCoin\BROWSER-PROMPT.md — if they diverge, NameCoin wins). It points
here and reuses the resolver core. theseus.bch is registered and should
eventually serve the browser's own homepage over the protocol it implements.
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