Haven can still be useful behind a VPN if you intend to use it as a backup relay and ...

Anthony Accioly

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2025-04-14 23:22:33

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Haven can still be useful behind a VPN if you intend to use it as a backup relay and media server (think Citrine on steroids), as mentioned above. One thing to note: client relay connectivity status can be a bit misleading in this case. For example, a client may perform a mix of local requests from your browser or native application, but it might also implement its own backend or use a proxy to connect to the relay. Meaning that some clients will try to connect to your relay over the Internet.

This means that, depending on the client and the operation, it may happily report that it can connect to your relay (based on client-side logic), but still fail to function properly.

Before Haven, I tried Citrine with a few clients, and while most of them would happily "connect" over HTTP to a Citrine running on localhost, in practice, quite a few clients would only write to an HTTPS-enabled relay accessible over the internet.

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