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You can already do basic networking by utilizing the planck.sh namespace, which allows you to run shell commands and get the results back. Thus you can use it to call curl. Not perfect, but with a thin wrapper you can easily GET or POST to services.

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I was thinking more along the lines of creating a listening socket. There's already some form of URI access in the source.

Ah. Yeah, should have figured that out through the NodeJS keyword.

Yep, the ability to directly create network connections will ultimately land in Planck.

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