Tabserve.dev
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localhost tunneling
SHOW HN2023
117points
21comments
#546of 3,109 in 2023
Top 18%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Performance: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good concept and clean UI
From 3 comments
What sort of precautions would one need to take before just firing this up on their toy project running on localhost...
Solvency on HNnice stuff, really like the ui but i am not sure if this functionally does anything different than cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8080 it's the same thing right?
geekodour on HNGod! No more the garbage ngrok for me.
revskill on HN
Objections
No WebSocket support yet
From 3 comments
The missing websockets support is anywhere in the roadmap?
neoecos on HNUnder limitations: "No WebSocket requests."
latchkey on HNWithout web sockets and streaming responses, this is not very useful tbh.
sattoshi on HN
Requires enabling CORS on the localhost server
From 2 comments
This is pretty awesome. I was going to ask if it is constrained by any Same Origin restrictions, but I see the note at the bottom of the page that you must "enable CORS" on the…
TechBro8615 on HNThis is cool, I took a good stab at using it last night but implementing CORS in the project I wanted it for was a pain on my end. Likely my issue, they have pretty clear but…
truemotive on HN
Any site in the browser can reach the localhost server
From 2 comments
> Since you are behind the reverse proxy anyway, there is probably not much of a security implication? If you access other sites in the same browser, they'll be able to send…
paulgb on HNWith such configuration, requests to e.g. a jupyterlab/cockpit/mosh webterm on localhost - if the auth token is already stored in a cookie - thus can execute arbitrary commands…
westurner on HN
Requests
Add WebSocket support
From 2 comments
The missing websockets support is anywhere in the roadmap?
neoecos on HNHow does this deal with web-sockets?
sattoshi on HN
Questions
Which origin must the CORS header allow
From 1 comment
This is pretty awesome. I was going to ask if it is constrained by any Same Origin restrictions, but I see the note at the bottom of the page that you must "enable CORS" on the…
TechBro8615 on HN
How it differs from cloudflared tunnel
From 1 comment
nice stuff, really like the ui but i am not sure if this functionally does anything different than cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8080 it's the same thing right?
geekodour on HN
Alternatives named
cloudflared tunnel
From 1 comment
nice stuff, really like the ui but i am not sure if this functionally does anything different than cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8080 it's the same thing right?
geekodour on HN
ngrok
From 1 comment
God! No more the garbage ngrok for me.
revskill on HN