somadhy / ProxyDot

Local worker, designed to proxy requests on a local port, to a pre-specified remote server. Written in C# and .Net Core. For testing purposes used .Net Core 8 preview and AOT Publish. Only Windows.

ProxyDot

Local worker, designed to proxy requests on a local port, to a pre-specified remote server.

Written in C# and .Net Core.

For testing purposes used .Net Core 8 preview and AOT Publish.

Only Windows.

Features

• Kerberos authentication is supported for the target site
• Write request logs to file (with Serilog)

Build

Go to root project directory and:

• build with dotnet build
• or AOT publish with dotnet publish
• or just build & run in place dotnet run

You are absolutely free to change the .Net version and the publishing strategy in the ProxyDot.csproj configuration :).

Configuration

Values configure in appsettings.json

  "ProxyDot": {
    "LocalPort": 8001,                              # Local port (default 8081)
    "UpstreamURI": "https://www.contoso.local",     # Remote URI for proxy
    "UseDefaultCredentials": true,                  # If "true" using DefaultCredentials
    "AuthenticationMethod": "Negotiate",            # Negotiate, NTLM, Basic
    "UserName": "User",                             # Remote user name
    "Domain": "Contoso"                             # Remote domain
    "IgnoredRequestHeaders": [ "Host", "Origin" ]   # This headers do not copy from client to remote
  },

Default logging configure to write to console and file in logs/log.txt:

Usage

Just run dotnet run or ./ProxyDot.exe if application is published. Administrative privileges are mandatory!

If setting UseDefaultCredentials sets to false you will be prompted for a remote's password before working.

After launching the application, you can access the remote server via a local address using your browser. postman, console utilities, etc.

$Response = Invoke-WebRequest -URI http://127.0.0.1:8001/_api/accounts/100500
$Response

$Response = iwr http://127.0.0.1:8001/index.html
$Response

Licensing

Copyright (c) MIT License