strong-tunnel
v1.1.6
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Semi-transparent wrapper for arbitrary network connections over ssh2
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strong-tunnel
Easy tunnelling over ssh2.
Usage
There is nothing to configure, but some environment variables are used to set defaults if no options are given.
var st = require('strong-tunnel');
st(someUrl, sshOpts, function(err, url) {
// if someUrl was plain http, url will be someUrl
// if someUrl was http+ssh://, url points to a local ephemeral tunnel
// sshOpts is optional with defaults described below.
http.get(url, onResponse);
});
Username
Your current local username is assumed to be the username used for ssh. To
override this you can set the LOGNAME
environment variable to the desired
username before the tunnel URL is created.
Credentials
To keep the API simple, it is assumed that an ssh agent is already running,
that the path to its domain socket is in the SSH_AUTH_SOCK
environment
variable, and that an appropriate private key has been loaded into that agent.
This is usually done for you in modern *nix environments as part of your login shell/session. See ssh-agent(1) for more information about ssh agents.
Longer Example
var fmt = require('util').format;
var http = require('http');
var st = require('strong-tunnel');
var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
res.end(JSON.stringify(req.headers));
});
var sshOpts = {
host: '127.0.0.1',
};
server.listen(3030, function() {
var direct = 'http://127.0.0.1:3030/';
var tunneled = 'http+ssh://127.0.0.1:3030/';
// Standard request using URL string
http.get(direct, resLog('%s using %s:', direct, direct));
// URL is only modified if a tunnelling URL was given
st(direct, function(err, url) {
if (err) throw err;
// url == direct, unmodified
http.get(url, resLog('%s using %s:', direct, url));
});
// optional second argument containing ssh config
st(tunneled, sshOpts, function(err, url) {
if (err) throw err;
// url != tunneled, is modified
http.get(url, resLog('%s using %s:', tunneled, url));
});
server.unref();
});
function resLog(prefix) {
prefix = fmt.apply(null, arguments);
return function onResponse(res) {
res.on('data', function(d) {
console.log('%s -> %s', prefix, d);
});
};
}