RequestBite Tunnel #

What is Tunnel? #

Tunnel is a service currently in active development that allows you to expose HTTP-based services such as APIs or web frontends that you have running on your local computer to the public Internet.

Any service you expose is properly secured with HTTPS on a publicly accessible URL. This is very useful e.g. when developing a service that you haven't yet deployed to a publicly available URL. Some common use-cases:

• Test responsiveness of your locally running frontend on a mobile phone.
• Demo your local API (or frontend) to a colleague or customer.
• Bypass firewall or NAT to use local service.

Tunnels are opened and managed using the RBite CLI. Read this article for how to install it, and continue with this article on how to set up tunnels and how to use them.