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HTTPS + Tunnel Your Localhost - Cloudflare Tunnels, Ngrok, and more!
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why you might need to tunnel to your local computer, and how to set that up securely.
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Show Notes 00:24 Welcome
01:09 GitHub tarball web streams
05:09 Sponsor: Sentry
05:48 Why would I need security locally?
Caddy Server
11:23 Cookie issues
13:04 Examples of things that need a secure context
MDN Features restricted to secure contexts
14:58 What is tunneling?
19:22 Cloudflare Tunnels
Cloudflared
Cloudflare Tunnel
20:50 nGrok
ngrok
23:22 Local tunnel
Local Tunnel
24:55 Tunnel to
Tunnel to dev - Expose your local web server to the internet with a public URL
26:02 Cloudflare subdomain
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