Forward connection to local development environment in LAN
I needed a quick way to test a few things on a webapp running locally (on my Linux box) from another machine running Mac OSX.
Quick and easy way (although insecure, make sure you only do this on a private LAN) was to use socat.
Install on Archlinux (server):
sudo pacman -S socat
Install on the MacOSX client via homebrew:
brew install socat
Proxy local connection to the LAN (on the server; assuming the webapp runs locally on port 5000):
socat tcp-listen:8000,fork tcp:localhost:5000
Proxy remote connection to localhost (so we can access it with the benefits ...
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Samuele Santi
Software engineer. Founder and CEO at BKNO3.
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