Gotunnel makes your localhost server accessible on the net.

Assuming your server is running on port 3000, on your laptop. Run ./client -p "3000" (from the checkedout repository, see installation) and that would make it accessible on a subdomain at localtunnel.net.

$ ./client -p 3000
Setting Gotunnel server localtunnel.net:34000 with local server on 3000

Connect to vxyz.localtunnel.net

The server is running on ec2 small instance, so although free, might not be able to handle much load. You can deploy the server on your own machine (ec2 instance etc), and connect the client to it. More below.

It supports HTTP/S and WebSocket. And, more of a technical difference, works by forwarding connections at TCP level.

If you are on Mac OS X, just checkout the repository. The client binary that comes with the repo, should work.

git clone https://github.com/ciju/gotunnel

If you are on some other OS, or the above didn't work. First install Go. Then clone the repo, and build the client. Ex:

git clone https://github.com/ciju/gotunnel
go build client.go

$ ./client
Usage: ./client [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -p="": port
  -r="localtunnel.net:34000": the remote gotunnel server host/ip:port
  -sub="": request subdomain to serve on

Install golang, and compile the server with command.

go build server.go

Run the server with custom options. Usage: ./server [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -a="localtunnel.net": the address to be used by the users
  -p="32000": Access the tunnel sites on this port.
  -x="0.0.0.0:34000": Port for clients to connect to

• If making connections to ports like 34000 are not allowed by your n/w then the client might not work.

• Connection pooling might not be possible. Working at the TCP level, we loose the ability of knowing when an HTTP/S or websocket request has finished, except when TCP connection ends.

• statistics
• better error handling
• make it faster

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