Node's ws aborts the handshake when close() is called on a CONNECTING
socket and emits an error on the next tick; with no listener that is an
uncaught exception, and Electron answers with the modal "A JavaScript
error occurred in the main process". nostr-tools drops its onerror
handler right before closing, which is what the WizardConnect relay
teardown in Aegis runs on every wallet disconnect while a relay is
still connecting. Browser WebSockets ignore the same sequence, which is
why the library gets away with it elsewhere.
Every consumer in the main process shares the one ws module, so
close() now adds a no-op error listener to a connecting socket before
aborting it. Anything else that still escapes to the top of the process
is logged to <userData>/main-errors.log instead of raising the modal;
Electron continued after that dialog anyway, so only the interruption
goes.
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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