Tunnel http connections over hyperswarm
Status: experimental/WIP
Maybe a similar module already exists!? If you know of one, please make an issue and give a link!
Why?
Maybe you are behind a NAT and want to make a http server on local host accessible over the internet.
Similar to what is offered by services like ngrok and burrow.io - but without the price plan.
Usage:
CLI
On machine running an http server:
./cli.js server <port> <swarm topic>
Receives http requests over hyperswarm, forward to a local http server running on given port.
On another machine:
./cli.js client <port> <swarm topic>
Forwards local http requests on given port over hyperswarm to remote server
then make a request to http://localhost:<port>
<swarm topic> - can be any string (its hash is taken as the swarm topic) - so the more 'random', the more secure, up to 32 bytes of entropy
Programmatically
const { server, client } = require('.')
server(topic, port) - tunnel to locally running http server on the given port
Topic must be a 32 byte buffer
client(topic, port) - tunnel local requests to the given port. (if no port is given, 3001 is used)
Topic must be a 32 byte buffer