When Git Winch starts running, it also starts as tiny localhost webserver at port 9919. You may wonder what is that used for?

Firstly, understand what a localhost server is: It is a web-server that works only on your own computer. Such webserver can only be used from your own computer and from within certain pages of our web-app which you are currently viewing in your browser*. This localhost webserver cannot be directly accessed from the external Internet.

We have coded this in-built localhost webserver so that it does NOT have any capability to pick up any data from your computer. Hence, there is no question of any misuse of your data or privacy due to this localhost webserver.

We've programmed this localhost webserver to act as a bridge between the coordination server used by Git Winch and your computer. As you keep using Git Winch this localhost server is pinged from the web-app for various activities such as starting a build process on your machine depending on various Git Push conducted by someone in your team.

NOTE: To maximize the use of Git Winch make sure that you do NOT close the web-app that is started when you login to your account. Why? Because it is that web-app which will communicate instructions to the localhost webserver, due to which additional functionality gets done…such as the build process.

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