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> > Incidentally, if you run Bucktooth on the same server, you can use -isproxy > > to "talk to yourself" without TCP sockets. However, it looks like you're > > going more general-purpose with this, which definitely will be more widely > > applicable. > > That was actually my initial approach, until I discovered -isproxy > only accesses locally. I briefly thought about hacking at the > Bucktooth code, then thought better of it :)

I might make that clearer in the documentation. I had considered allowing a 'networked proxy' feature but it became overly complex and didn't really confer many advantages to make client access any simpler.

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