[LND Client] HTTP REST vs GRPC generated from proto about lightning-browser-extension HOT 6 CLOSED

The big (unsolvable?) problem is that gRPC does NOT work in the browser and thus we can not use that in the extension.
At least it does not work without any grpc-web support on the server side.

That is the reason why we have to use the REST API when we directly want to connect to a LND node.

To work around those limitations the idea was to use a native companion app and talk to that native app using native messaging (see the native connector and lnd-native-companion).

The native extension also works around the problem with self-signed certificates for the REST API. (which also do not work in the browser)

This native app could for example also be an existing app like zap.

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@motorina0 will we have to supply the certificate clientside?

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Good point!
Yes, from what I can tell so far the .cert is mandatory.

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I think maybe we should leave this one around? maybe we come up with a solution somehow? or the grpc-web stuff is somehow possible at some point?

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Not much new info in this issue. We can re-open/reference it when/if we revisit gRPC.
Otherwise I'm afraid we will have hundreds of open issues like this :)

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yep, true. you're right.

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