Running invoker without an internet connection

[thinkmorebetter]

If I don't have an internet connection, there seems to be an issue with running invoker and my browser fails to go to web.dev. Is there any workaround for this? Thanks!

[swrobel]

I was just going to file this issue after attempting to use invoker on the plane, but I'll be damned if you didn't beat me to it. Well played, Mr. Perelman, well played.

[thinkmorebetter]

Ha, that's exactly how I discovered it too. 👍

[mattscilipoti]

Pow.cx has this same issue. They recommend adding an entry to /etc/hosts for each application you want to access when offline: "127.0.0.1 your_app_name.dev". powder (a manager for pow.cx) provides a cli helper (powder host) to manage this.

I would be happy to add this functionality to invoker's CLI, but... I need the list of applications/processes to add. In pow.cx, each application has a dir in the ~/.pow dir. I haven't found the equivalent for invoker. I can find the list of running processes, but I do not think these are equivalent - though it may be sufficient. For now.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

[swrobel]

@gnufied @iffyuva @nisanth074 any suggestions for @mattscilipoti here?