PipeGate
Infrastructure
tunneling proxy
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How HN took it
0 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Privacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool use of WebSockets
From 1 comment
Cool use of WebSockets! Have you tried deploying it to AWS Lambda? I would like to have something similar on AWS, but SSL support and scale-to-zero are hard and tricky with EC2…
buremba on HN
Objections
Any client can connect to the websocket route without authentication, so a public deployment is dangerous
From 1 comment
Huge caveat to hosting this server publicly is the codebase will accept any websocket connection to the /{connection_id} route. The author gives a small warning about…
aeriose on HN
Not production-ready; security aspects would need work before real deployment
From 1 comment
Thanks, I haven't deployed PipeGate on AWS; it started as a personal curiosity project. There are probably many security aspects that would need to be addressed before deploying…
jeeybee on HN
Requests
Built-in log/inspector and request replay, like ngrok
From 2 comments
For me the ngrok killer feature I've never seen elsewhere is a simple embedded webserver with log/inspector for requests + the ability to replay them. Wish Apache or CNCF would…
themgt on HNI've tried self-hosting zrok before, however the domain setup was a bit complicated and I stopped halfway Log/inspector and replay are fundamental for me when I am setting up…
d0100 on HN
Deployment on AWS Lambda with SSL and scale-to-zero
From 1 comment
Cool use of WebSockets! Have you tried deploying it to AWS Lambda? I would like to have something similar on AWS, but SSL support and scale-to-zero are hard and tricky with EC2…
buremba on HN
Questions
Why is request replay useful for webhooks and integrations?
From 1 comment
Which part of the domain setup was complicated? Curious on how we can streamline/improve (or may have already). Excuse my ignorance, trying to get to the root why, why is replay…
PLG88 on HN
Which part of zrok's domain setup was complicated?
From 1 comment
Which part of the domain setup was complicated? Curious on how we can streamline/improve (or may have already). Excuse my ignorance, trying to get to the root why, why is replay…
PLG88 on HN
Alternatives named
zrok
From 1 comment
Why not just use one of the many open source ngrok alternatives - https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. I will advocate for zrok.io as I work on its parent project,…
PLG88 on HN
Charles proxy with Map Remote
From 1 comment
You can do that with many proxy GUIs like Charles. I think the feature is called Map Remote. ngrok -> gui proxy -> your dev server
emadda on HN
LocalXpose and Pinggy
From 1 comment
Do you mean ngrok's killer feature? In that case, other services also provide similar options. Such as localxpose or https://pinggy.io/
ghoshbishakh on HN