Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al
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Yay, first shot of Auto Encrypt¹ running a HTTPS web server at a Web Number (IP address).

ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/

Next step: find out why some of the tests are failing on the Linux box, fix, and implement Web Numbers support in Kitten² and Catalyst³.

¹ codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e
² kitten.small-web.org
³ catalyst.small-web.org/

Screenshot of a browser showing a Hello, world! Page at https://91.98.66.193
Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al
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So, going forward, Auto Encrypt¹, Kitten², and Catalyst³ will be seamlessly (automatically; with zero config) supporting Web Numbers⁴ (IPv4, IPv6), and, of course, should you want to point one at your server for old time’s sake, legacy domain names too.

I still have some dev to do on this on the Kitten side of things but I’m hugely excited about being able to remove another centralised component – DNS – from the Small Web⁵ (peer-to-peer, personal web) as we inch nearer to making it available this year to everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.

¹ codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e
² kitten.small-web.org
³ catalyst.small-web.org
⁴ ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
⁵ ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-com

Screenshot of ssh terminal connected to remote host (aral@linux): > curl https: //91.98.66.193 Hello, world! > curl https:// [2a01:4f8:1c1e: 4207:0:0:0:1] Hello, world! > curl https:// linux.ar.al Hello, world!
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