localtunnel
Expose localhost servers to the Internet (by progrium)
go-vhost
HTTP/TLS hostname multiplexing library for Go (by inconshreveable)
| localtunnel | go-vhost | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | |
| 3,160 | 256 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 10 months ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
localtunnel
Posts with mentions or reviews of localtunnel.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-30.
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List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
progrium/localtunnel - As far as I know this is the first ever tool of this kind, predating ngrok and the other localtunnel. No longer maintained, but here for posterity. MIT License. Written in Go.
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Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams
Thanks for the history. I maintain this list[0], and wasn't aware of OG localtunnel, likely because there's a somewhat newer and now more popular project with the same name[1]. You appear to be correct on timing. Here's the earliest commits on GitHub for each of the projects:
OG localtunnel (2010): https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/tree/fb82920d9d3e538...
Other localtunnel (2012): https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/tree/93d62b9dbb9f...
ngrok (2012): https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok/tree/8f4795ecac7f92...
I'll see that OG localtunnel gets added to the list for posterity.
[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
[1]: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel
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Building your own Ngrok in 130 lines
Running a local development server for your app is pretty common, but what if you wanted somebody else to access it? Maybe for a demo, or maybe to debug webhook integrations. If you've ever used Ngrok (or perhaps the original localtunnel), you know what I'm talking about.
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The History and Future of Socket-level Multiplexing
If you've ever used Ngrok to open a public endpoint to a localhost server, you may not know it was one of several clones of a tool I made in 2010 called localtunnel. The original localtunnel was just a wrapper around SSH, literally using OpenSSH on the server side.
go-vhost
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-vhost.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-27.
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Building your own Ngrok in 130 lines
The other library is actually by the author of Ngrok. Called go-vhost, it helps with the problem of virtual hosts. Ideally when a connection comes in to be forwarded down the tunnel we can hand it off wholesale. This way the other end can just start reading off the connection as if received directly. But in order to figure out the hostname used, we have to start reading off the connection up to the Host header. Then we have to hand it off prepended with what was read. What Alan wrote is an abstraction that gives you a virtual listener that lets you accept new connections for a particular virtual host and get the connection as if it hadn't been read yet. A lot of this is due to the interface based approach of the Go standard library.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing localtunnel and go-vhost you can also consider the following projects:
webtransport - WebTransport is a web API for flexible data transport
qmux - wire protocol for multiplexing connections or streams into a single connection, based on a subset of the SSH Connection Protocol