Inlets
Infrastructure
tunneling and reverse proxy
SHOW HN2019
146points
48comments
#298of 2,195 in 2019
Top 14%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for demos, webhook testing and IoT demo days
From 2 comments
Sometimes you don’t have “an IT organization”. Think demo day with an IoT device. God bless ngrok.
avip on HNthese solutions are useful for more than "just when corporate IT sucks". example: I need to debug a test-mode stripe webhook and normal approaches have failed for whatever…
jdc0589 on HN
Objections
Tools like this are often blocked by corporate firewalls
From 2 comments
From the readme: >Why do we need this project? Similar tools such as ngrok or Argo Tunnel from Cloudflare are closed-source, have limits built-in, can work out expensive and have…
gruez on HN> is also often banned by corporate firewall policies meaning it can be unusable If this tool offers similar functionality, as soon as it becomes well-known it too will "be often…
dspillett on HN
Questions
Why not just use SSH tunnels?
From 1 comment
Why wouldn't one use SSH tunnels instead of this/ngrok?
adnanh on HN
Alternatives named
ngrok
From 2 comments
So it’s like ngrok?
moltar on HNUnfortunately: "DO NOT RUN THIS VERSION OF NGROK (1.X) IN PRODUCTION. Both the client and server are known to have serious reliability issues including memory and file descriptor…
arethuza on HN
localtunnel
From 1 comment
Also https://localtunnel.github.io/www/
rhardih on HN
localhost.run
From 1 comment
See also: http://localhost.run/
gmac on HN
chisel
From 1 comment
There's this little gem that uses websocket tunnels for all those times only http is allowed. https://github.com/jpillora/chisel A lot of modern websites rely on websockets for…
nijave on HN