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SeanR

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Registered: 20-11-2018

Posts: 148

ngrok to expose your URL from behind a firewall or natted address

This is a great little tool if you are testing your web service at home and need to have it consumed from outside your own network.  This essentially sets up a tunnel to your internal http server/web api that passes traffic to and fro.  Perfect for development testing.

Their description: One command for an instant, secure URL to your localhost server through any NAT or firewall.

https://ngrok.com/

1. Download and run a program (single file no need to install anything) on your machine and provide it the port of a network service, usually a web server.

2. Connect to the ngrok cloud service which accepts traffic on a public address.

3. Traffic is relayed through to the ngrok process running on your machine and then on to the local address you specified.