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Jeff's localtunnel has been discontinued in favor of Ngrok. It was discontinued in the middle of a transition from ruby to python.
Is there a writeup somewhre of what happened? localtunnel v1 worked perfectly for me, localtunnelv2 never did (apparently no remote server was ever up) but it's weird that ngrok is a ruby project again.
Personally I would rather just use "ssh -R", the built in remote port forwarding. You either need to flip a setting on the server to allow listening on an interface besides localhost, or configure Nginx/etc as a reverse proxy. For example: ssh -f -N -q -R 2222:localhost:22 my_name@remote.example.com Decent writeup here: http://www.noah.org/wiki/SSH_tunnel
Author of the project here. I want to clarify why this project exists (as many seem to point out that other projects or methods exist for doing this). TL;DR; If you think of localtunnel as just a shitty ngrok (or name your project here), you are missing the point and probably don't have the same use cases I do. 1. It was made overnight at some hackathon because I was not satisfied with the other tunneling options I f…
(Shameless plug - I'm the author of httpipe)
Personally I would rather just use "ssh -R", the built in remote port forwarding. You either need to flip a setting on the server to allow listening on an interface besides localhost, or configure Nginx/etc as a reverse proxy. For example: ssh -f -N -q -R 2222:localhost:22 my_name@remote.example.com Decent writeup here: http://www.noah.org/wiki/SSH_tunnel
That's what I've used in the past, but its more complicated to set up ("You either need to flip a setting on the server to allow listening on an interface besides localhost, or configure Nginx/etc as a reverse proxy." is not trivial for most). It also requires a server with a static IP to ssh to.
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That's what I've used in the past, but its more complicated to set up ("You either need to flip a setting on the server to allow listening on an interface besides localhost, or configure Nginx/etc as a reverse proxy." is not trivial for most). It also requires a server with a static IP to ssh to.
Yes. This is cold hearted, but I would suggest that for those for whom this is too hard, they should reconsider exposing their machines and code directly to the public Internet.
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To me the ease of having the library be installable with the "canonical" package manager of my platform is too convenient; just "feels" more natural and simpler. I actually thought about writing a node.js ngrok client but then gave up on the idea since localtunnel was working well enough and I personally didn't need the other features from ngrok which I didn't have in localtunnel. I wouldn't worry about the whole rew…
Make sense and I agree. Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, ngrok's new protocol is optimized very heavily for speed which comes with a cost in complexity of both the protocol and the clients that implement it.
My daily routine is
ngrok start ssh && go home
Stupid firewalls.
Author of the project here. I want to clarify why this project exists (as many seem to point out that other projects or methods exist for doing this). TL;DR; If you think of localtunnel as just a shitty ngrok (or name your project here), you are missing the point and probably don't have the same use cases I do. 1. It was made overnight at some hackathon because I was not satisfied with the other tunneling options I f…
I've never heard of ngrok, but the instantly obvious use-case is to allow testing of webhooks to my local machine. In the past we've done this by booting a temporary server on AWS and remote forwarding to our local machines, which is quite a bit more complicated. I already work on a node stack, so the npm install is wonderful. I expect I'll get a lot of use out of this. Thanks!
Oh nice! This looks very similar to https://pagekite.net (which is also open source), minus the need for an account. Good call.
Yep, was going to chime in here as the dev of a pagekite is a friend of mine. Glad someone else appreciates it too!