Direct Sockets API in Chrome Apps

Category: Network / Connectivity
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 125)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Allows web apps to establish direct transmission control protocol (TCP) and user datagram protocol (UDP) communications with network devices and systems. This API is supposed to provide a modern alternative to the deprecated chrome.sockets APIs.

Motivation

As Chrome Apps API chrome.sockets will soon be deprecated, developers are encouraged to migrate to Isolated Web Apps. Enabling Direct Sockets in Chrome Apps in the meantime will facilitate & smoothen the transition process.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://wicg.github.io/direct-sockets
Firefox: Negative
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://g-issues.chromium.org/issues/329445684

Explainers: https://github.com/WICG/direct-sockets/blob/main/docs/explainer.md

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