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Today we are going to discuss about the one of the Best Tunneling Service - Ngrok.
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What is Ngrok
Ngrok is a tool which exposes local servers behind NATs and firewalls to the public internet over secure tunnels.
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Ngrok allows you to expose a web server running on your local machine [localhost] to the internet. Just tell ngrok what port your web server is listening on and Ngrok generate the public URL for your local web server which is accessible from anywhere in the world.
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Ngrok provides a real-time web UI where you can introspect all HTTP traffic running over your tunnels. Replay any request against your tunnel with one click.
What are the use of Ngrok
- Host your temporary website
- Host phishing files without getting banned
- Run personal cloud services from your home
- Demo websites without deploying
- Build webhook consumers on your dev machine
- Test mobile apps connected to your locally running backend
- Stable addresses for your connected devices that are deployed in the field
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Features
- You can get https secured public URL
- You can add HTTPS Authentication for your tunnels
- Its work fast
- Free and Pro both plans available
- You doesn't need to do Port forwarding
- You can inspect the requests from web GUI. Just type on browser https://127.0.0.1:4040
- You can run multiple tunnels simultaneously
- Webhooks Supported
- Multiple protocol supported i.e TCP Tunnels and HTTP(s) tunnels both are supported.
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How it works
According to Ngrok Officials
The work flow is as follows:
1. Download Ngrok
Download and run a program on your machine and provide it the port of a network service, usually a web server.
2. Connecting our Service
Connect to the ngrok cloud service which accepts traffic on a public address.
3. Access from Anywhere
Traffic is relayed through to the ngrok process running on your machine and then on to the local address you specified.
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