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H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies

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Re: H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies

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Post by boronine »

I was able to keep my code small by leveraging existing protocols: TLS for authentication and HTTP2 for multiplexing, stuffing simultaneous HTTP1 requests onto a single TLS-encrypted tunnel socket.

Hopefully I'll make it on the hall of fame [1] :)

[1] https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

Re: H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies

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Post by boronine »

anshumankmr wrote: post #3

Awesome. My company had blocked Ngrok, will try this out when I am back from my leave.

Let me know how to goes! And watch for an update this week. I'm writing thousands of lines of tests to iron out all the event handling quirks in case of bad network conditions etc. I want to make it rock solid.

Re: H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies

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Post by debarshri »

anshumankmr wrote: post #3

Awesome. My company had blocked Ngrok, will try this out when I am back from my leave.

There is must be a reason why they have blocked ngrok. It is not the tool, but the idea that you are opening tunnels from person machine to transport data undetect is what they don't like.

Re: H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies

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Post by luismedel »

debarshri wrote: post #7
anshumankmr wrote: post #3

Awesome. My company had blocked Ngrok, will try this out when I am back from my leave.

There is must be a reason why they have blocked ngrok. It is not the tool, but the idea that you are opening tunnels from person machine to transport data undetect is what they don't like.

People absurdly trying to circumvent company rules, security team trying to secure the mess and avoid data loss...the vicious circle.

Re: H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies

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Post by yawgmoth »

egeozcan wrote: post #4
anshumankmr wrote: post #3

Awesome. My company had blocked Ngrok, will try this out when I am back from my leave.

> My company had blocked Ngrok may I ask why?

Because punching holes in the network that makes data exfiltration simple is a generally considered a bad thing
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