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Ngrok






Purpose




  1. Secure tunneling (Tunneling means movement of data from one network to another).
  2. Public URL .



Install Ngrok




  1. Navigate to the URL - https://ngrok.com/download
  2. Click on the button "Download for windows" (you can select more options based on your operating system).
  3. Picture showing the button to download ngrok for windows operating system
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  4. A zip file gets downloaded. After the download is completed, extract the file.
  5. A file "ngrok.exe" gets extracted.
  6. Once you click on the file "ngrok.exe", a command line window gets opened.
  7. Picture showing the command line window when ngrok.exe is clicked
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How To Create A Tunnelling Service?




ngrok http 3978 --host-header=localhost




Picture showing a command in ngrok to create tunnelling service for port number 3978
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Picture showing the public messaging endpoint hosted through ngrok
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Posted By  -  Karan Gupta
 
Posted On  -  Saturday, January 9, 2021

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