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       Show HN: Portr - open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams
        
       Author : pixxxel
       Score  : 137 points
       Date   : 2024-04-03 03:01 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
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       | DyslexicAtheist wrote:
       | but does it have lzma compression support?
        
         | rmbyrro wrote:
         | If you use it in Fedora, sure
        
       | bluelightning2k wrote:
       | This is really, really well done. Thank you!
       | 
       | All the open source ngrok alternatives I've seen miss the
       | importance of inspect and replay - looks like you've done that
       | nicely.
        
         | pixxxel wrote:
         | Thank you so much
        
       | bluelightning2k wrote:
       | What was your incentive for building this?
        
         | pixxxel wrote:
         | Nothing really, just wanted to see if I could build it.
        
         | joshmanders wrote:
         | Why does everything have to have an incentive outside of
         | "because I wanted to"?
        
           | hacker_newz wrote:
           | Because open-sourcing and publicizing a tool with no valid
           | use-case comes off silly.
        
             | joshmanders wrote:
             | You sound like someone who would throw their child's
             | painting away instead of putting it on the fridge because
             | it was just a piece of paper with a few brushes of paint
             | slapped onto it.
        
           | bluelightning2k wrote:
           | Why does every question have to have a purpose deeper than
           | "because I was curious"?
        
             | ibash wrote:
             | banana
        
               | compootr wrote:
               | true
        
       | kincl wrote:
       | Relevant awesome list on tunneling:
       | https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
        
       | wutwutwat wrote:
       | Full circle. Jeff originally wrote the open source program
       | localtunnel[0], which ngrox was originally built on top of
       | (though I doubt it is still based on that but maybe), now an open
       | source solution to replace the commercial thing, that's based on
       | the open source thing :)
       | 
       | The beauty and freedom of open source shines through
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       | [0] https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel
        
         | apitman wrote:
         | 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 (23 Jan 2010):
         | https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/tree/fb82920d9d3e538...
         | 
         | Other localtunnel (17 Jun 2012):
         | https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/tree/93d62b9dbb9f...
         | 
         | ngrok (20 Mar 2013):
         | 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
        
       | nurple wrote:
       | I'd just like to take a moment to thank you for releasing it as
       | AGPL.
        
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