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Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

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Post by tomashertus »

yeldarb wrote: post #13

Happy paying ngrok user here. Love it for developing anything using webhooks and also hybrid mobile apps (I have my app pull the JS from the Dev box I'm working on via ngrok without having to rebuild the app or deploy the code anywhere). It significantly speeds up my workflow!

I'm surprised that ngrok is something new for HN community.

Anyway, happy customer here! Recommending this product whenever I go:) It has became an essential part of my workflow.

Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

#32

Post by [deleted] »

yeldarb wrote: post #13

Happy paying ngrok user here. Love it for developing anything using webhooks and also hybrid mobile apps (I have my app pull the JS from the Dev box I'm working on via ngrok without having to rebuild the app or deploy the code anywhere). It significantly speeds up my workflow!

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Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

#33

Post by brianshaler »

an_account wrote: post #27
l2dy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 2) Is there any costs associated with this. Do i ever need to pay See https://ngrok.com/product#pricing .

Did the free option go away? (On my phone now so I can't try it out.)

Below the paid options:

  Free Plan
  For quick demos and other simple tunneling needs.
  * HTTP/TCP tunnels on random URLs/ports
  * 1 online ngrok process
  * 4 tunnels per ngrok process
  * 40 connections / minute

Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

#34

Post by tmd83 »

inconshreveable wrote: post #2

Hiya there folks - I'm the creator of ngrok, happy to answer any questions

Correct me but there seems to be a free vs. paid plan?

Seems free vs. paid is about reserving/custom domain vs. random one and a lot of security related feature. But the basic tunneling works for free am I correct in that?

Also what does the user really mean in terms of ngrok concurrent user or kind of named seat.

Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

#35

Post by tmd83 »

an_account wrote: post #27
l2dy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 2) Is there any costs associated with this. Do i ever need to pay See https://ngrok.com/product#pricing .

Did the free option go away? (On my phone now so I can't try it out.)

It seems the answer was there in the site and you guys answered between me thinking about it and posting the question. Should have refreshed before submitting my question :).

Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

#36

Post by gls2ro »

vhost- wrote: post #28

I really like ngrok. I use it a lot. I just really dislike how the TCP tunnels work. With HTTP you get a unique subdomain which makes it harder for people to just scan and connect. With TCP, it's always 0.tcp.ngrok.io, so you can just scan that domain and connect to anything that's open.

I'not currently using it (so I did not test this) but seems like you have the option of custom TCP as I can see here https://ngrok.com/product#pricing for Pro account.

Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

#38

Post by inconshreveable »

cormacrelf wrote: post #37
inconshreveable wrote: post #2

Hiya there folks - I'm the creator of ngrok, happy to answer any questions

I'm a paying customer, I emailed you a few days ago about ngrok being quarantined as a trojan by Windows Defender. Do you have a response on that?

please file a false positive bug report against windows defender. there's not much I can do about that if they're misclassifying ngrok

Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

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Post by cormacrelf »

inconshreveable wrote: post #38
cormacrelf wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a paying customer, I emailed you a few days ago about ngrok being quarantined as a trojan by Windows Defender. Do you have a response on that?

please file a false positive bug report against windows defender. there's not much I can do about that if they're misclassifying ngrok

Alright. Reported. MMPC17050619803367

Re: Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

#40

Post by mablap »

inconshreveable wrote: post #38
cormacrelf wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a paying customer, I emailed you a few days ago about ngrok being quarantined as a trojan by Windows Defender. Do you have a response on that?

please file a false positive bug report against windows defender. there's not much I can do about that if they're misclassifying ngrok

With due respect, shouldn't you be the one filing the report? I mean, that's a potential loss of quite a few clients there...
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