Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
by Arcsech on Saturday May 06, 2017 @01:45AM
(#14278894)
How does this compare to https://localtunnel.github.io/www/ ?
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Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
by inconshreveable on Saturday May 06, 2017 @02:08AM
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same idea, great project. folks pay for ngrok because it's 1) more reliable 2) more featureful
Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
by peterburkimsher on Saturday May 06, 2017 @01:53AM
(#14278926)
Is localtunnel free?
It seems to be!
One is a big proprietary blob of mistrust and the other is localtunnel? Sorry if that sounds harsh but it's a shame I can't build and make sure that everything is above board.
Good on you though , that apart it seems a great idea well implemented. Easy to throw stuff up for prospects/clients in an agile way without having to talk to devops.
Why not free as in bird? It is already free as in beer.
My bad totally - I could not see the link? Great effort!
I stopped used ngrok because after opening the tunneled URL a few times it started saying "too many HTTP requests" on a Wordpress project. It is common for those to have many images/scripts/styles so throttling by number of requests makes ngrok unusable, now a happy localtunnel user.
Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
by clouddrover on Saturday May 06, 2017 @04:23AM
(#14279297)
ngrok has connection limits, but not request limits. Perhaps your server wasn't using keep-alive connections? It's mentioned in the pricing FAQ (scroll down a bit from this link):
Yeah my bad, it probably says "connections limit", I don't have time to figure out my way around it; other devs may do thought. I just want to fire it up and start working.
This seems like a problem with WordPress.
Not really, it was just an example; you can leave blank the Wordpress theme index.php and that way it makes only that request; the problem is more general: Real web sites are full of content (AKA. full of requests), that's just how it is.