jackode / ngrok

Tunneling, reverse proxy for developing and understanding networked, HTTP services

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What is ngrok?

ngrok is a tool that makes it easier to develop networked services (HTTP/TCP) It is a man-in-the-middle proxy server that you run locally on your development box. It allows you to do the following things:

  • Inspect all http requests/responses sent to/from the proxied application
  • Replay any previously observed http request to the proxied application
  • Expose a local http server to the internet on a subdomain of ngrok.com
  • Expose a local tcp server to the internet on a random port on ngrok.com

Downloading and installing ngrok

ngrok has no runtime dependencies. Just download a single binary for your platform and run it.

Compiling ngrok

Binaries get placed in ./bin

git clone git@github.com:inconshreveable/ngrok.git
cd ngrok && make
bin/ngrok [LOCAL PORT]

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Tunneling, reverse proxy for developing and understanding networked, HTTP services

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