Hosty
Overview
/etc/hosts based tiny reverse proxy.
You may sometimes run a web application on http://localhost:3000
during development, or
sometimes you may configure a local port forward on http://localhost:8080
with SSH to access web server behind firewalls.
Hosty loads your /etc/hosts
and acts as reverse proxies to simplify the URLs.
It allows you to manage mappings of local server name and port on /etc/hosts
.
Installation
$ gem install hosty
Usage
Run:
sudo hosty
If you have lines below in your /etc/hosts
:
127.0.0.1 internal.example.com internal # :8080
127.0.0.1 rails # :3000
Hosty accepts http://internal.example.com/foo
locally and proxies it
into http://internal.example.com:8080/foo
for example.
Use https
You can specify tls
option at the end of each line:
127.0.0.1 internal.example.com internal # :8080 tls
Hosty accepts http://internal.example.com/foo
and proxies into https://internal.example.com:8080/foo
. Also, you can spacify 'verify_none' to skip server cert verification.
127.0.0.1 internal.example.com internal # :8080 tls verify_none
Note
The URL scheme in your browser is always 'http'.
Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 2016-2022 Shintaro Kojima. Code released under the MIT license.