Building a website for sending WOL requests

I have been tasked with building a website that allows users to wake their PC's remotely.

Research Stage:

How am I going to do it? No idea.

Can I send a WoL packet directly from the browser? Doesn't look doable 

The WoL needs to send a UDP broadcast package to the LAN. But browsers don't expose any API for UDP packages.

You need either server-side coding or browser plugins. You can write your own plugin that uses udp api. - ykaragol (2016)



I need to build a local website that can handle user requests and send them to a local server, then I need to build a program(?) that can take those web requests and send the necessary magic packet.

I've come across something called Web APIs, sounds useful 🧐

Website:

Something JavaScript I guess.

Server Program:

Ok... Initial thoughts are that I should write a server side web-socket? (I have no idea if that's right but let's go with it)

So, I looked at a web-socket, but it's a persistent connection suitable for online games and such. Would it be overkill to use this here? Is there anything below a web-socket?

Right... I will be back. I think I need to go learn some javascript first.

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