Found by driving the add-on in a real Theseus rather than reasoning
about it. turnOn() failed with "Silent Mode · 1 is not yet configured
(ready)" — resolveEndpoint required the catalogue entry to carry a
vless URL, but the gateway catalogue deliberately ships none, because a
vless URL is the credential and that endpoint is public. The add-on
predates the key-issuer and was never taught to ask for a lease.
It now POSTs to /api/vpn/session for any ready exit that has no URL of
its own, and caches the lease under its serverId until a minute before
expiry. Baked-in and subscription entries still use their own URL and
never hit the network.
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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