Is it possible to build a REST API in a Canister?

[paulyoung]

There’s some more detailed info here:

How do you call http_request on localhost?

The way I did it for now was to edit /etc/hosts to add an entry like: 127.0.0.1 myproject.localhost Then start icx-proxy like this: icx-proxy --fetch-root-key --address 127.0.0.1:8453 --dns-alias myproject.localhost:rrkah-fqaaa-aaaaa-aaaaq-cai -v -v That way I can make HTTP requests to http://myproject.localhost:8453. You can pick a different host name and port.