/etc/hosts based tiny reverse proxy.

You may sometimes run a web application on http://localhost:3000 during development, or sometimes you may configure a local port forward on http://localhost:8080 with SSH to access web server behind firewalls.

Hosty loads your /etc/hosts and acts as reverse proxies to simplify the URLs. It allows you to manage mappings of local server name and port on /etc/hosts.

$ gem install hosty

Run:

sudo hosty

If you have lines below in your /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 internal.example.com internal  # :8080
127.0.0.1 rails  # :3000

Hosty accepts http://internal.example.com/foo locally and proxies it into http://internal.example.com:8080/foo for example.

You can specify tls option at the end of each line:

127.0.0.1 internal.example.com internal  # :8080 tls

Hosty accepts http://internal.example.com/foo and proxies into https://internal.example.com:8080/foo. Also, you can spacify 'verify_none' to skip server cert verification.

127.0.0.1 internal.example.com internal  # :8080 tls verify_none

Note

The URL scheme in your browser is always 'http'.

Copyright (c) 2016-2022 Shintaro Kojima. Code released under the MIT license.