Ngrok

Ngrok - Secure tunnels to localhost

Description

ngrok is a reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel from a public endpoint to a locally running web service. ngrok captures and analyzes all traffic over the tunnel for later inspection and replay.

  • Temporarily sharing a website that is only running on your development machine
  • Demoing an app at a hackathon without deploying
  • Developing any services which consume webhooks (HTTP callbacks) by allowing you to replay those requests
  • Debugging and understanding any web service by inspecting the HTTP traffic
  • Running networked services on machines that are firewalled off from the internet

Usage

ngrok http [port]

https://ngrok.com/