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I can see your local web servers

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founderling ◴[] No.20028376[source]
I started a local webserver listening on localhost:80 just to see what happens, but this thing seems to not detect it. It shows me "Scanning localhost ... localhost complete."

Edit: My guess is that this thing can only detect servers that send a CORS header that permits cross domain access.

It could probably do way better detection if it did not do xhr requests but added script/css/whatever elements to its own page pointing to localhost and detects if those error out.

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1. keithnz ◴[] No.20028443[source]
I started some as well, it didn't find anything.