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inlets vs localtunnel

A side-by-side look at inlets and localtunnel. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

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inlets

Network & Admin

Inlets is an open source cloud native tunnel written in Go that can expose internal services on public URLs or domains by tunneling traffic through a single endpoint server. It uses websockets and works well for exposing services securely without opening firewall ports.

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localtunnel

localtunnel

Development

localtunnel is an open source command line tool that allows you to easily share a web server running on your local machine without configuring DNS or firewall rules. It does this by assigning you a unique publicly accessible url that will proxy all requests to your locally running web server.

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