Headless hosted/cloud proxy mode

[pimterry]

In some cases, it's useful to have a persistent debugging proxy, where the UI is attached remotely and intermittently, while the proxy continues running indefinitely.

This often (but not always) is useful in a reverse proxy mode, for intercepting of incoming traffic to a specific fixed server, rather than from a client to many servers.

For example, this could be useful to provide a hosted IP/URL for mobile device use cases like #224, or to more easily deploy proxies for use in a Docker environment as in #122, or to act as a hosted reverse proxy for debugging incoming traffic to cloud environments (similar to the now-defunct Runscope Traffic Inspector).

A halfway-house towards this would be a locally hosted proxy with a publicly accessible tunnelling service.

In any cases here, this would imply exposing a proxy port to the public internet, so we'd need to think about filtering/auth to avoid open proxy abuse. Filtering by IP is probably easiest & sufficient? Lots of options to go further though, could provide a full hosted VPN, or use some kind of authorized tunnel system if necessary.

More details on related use cases or other ideas welcome - comment below!

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