peer-proxy

Expose local web service from Peer even behind NAT/FW

Features

• Expose local http server, behind firewall/nat
• Expose remote website, behind firewall/nat
• Proxy Websocket
• Forward proxy tunneling
• Secure end-to-end connections
• Token-based authentication based on user's IP address
• Rewrite location header in 3XX redirection response
• Rewrite href in 2XX text/html response
• Run over STUN session with appnet.io-stun-proxy
• Proxy web server dynamically on fly
• Http basic-auth support

Install

• npm install peer-proxy, or git clone peer-proxy && cd peer-proxy && npm install
• peer-proxy depend on node-httpp, please build it from repo nodejs-httpp
• setup your own AppNet.io backend controller services refer to AppNet.link-controller

Usage/API:

1. create proxy-example.js
var Proxy = require('peer-proxy');
var prx = new Proxy(['http://w3schools.com/', 'http://example.com/'], function(err, proxyURL){
    console.log('Website                            Proxy URL(please open it on browser)');
    for (var k in proxyURL) {
        console.log(k+'        '+proxyURL[k]);
    }
});

2. launch proxy server by node-httpp-binary-directory/node.exe proxy-example.js in case Windows machine.
   console dump like below:
   Website                            Proxy URL(please open it)
   http://w3schools.com/        https://zfaef294477c5aa14s.fae725b2c0812dc6.vurl.51dese.com:51688//vtoken/eb04d54a2f9edd5d
   http://example.com/        https://z7fd8e9e469ef6733s.fae725b2c0812dc6.vurl.51dese.com:51688//vtoken/eb04d54a2f9edd5d
   
3. use peer-proxy binary on Linux, like  ./bin/peer-proxy -t http://example.com
   Website                            Proxy URL(please open it on browser)
   http://example.com        https://zc5a93bdde908a92cs.d4ddf763050ab93e.vurl.51dese.com:51688//vtoken/8bb975c3385f47f3

4. in case the local http server run on localhost with port 3000, do ./bin/peer-proxy -t http://localhost:3000
   if it's https server on port 3000, do ./bin/peer-proxy -t https://localhost:3000
   
5. run over STUN with appnet.io-stun-proxy, just embed 'vlocal.' as sub-domain in origin vURL, 
   like https://zc5a93bdde908a92cs.d4ddf763050ab93e.vurl.vlocal.51dese.com:51688//vtoken/8bb975c3385f47f3

TODO:

• Rewrite href in text/html using DOM instead of regex

Support us

• Welcome contributing on document, codes, tests and issues

### License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012-present Tom Zhou(appnet.link@gmail.com)

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