Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx
Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and nginx Vincent Bernat October 3, 2026 6-minute read Also available in français Filed under web A friend wants to proofread your work-in-progress blog post, but its preview only runs on localhost:8080. Some run as a commercial service, like ngrok or Cloudflare Quick Tunnels. Some are self-hostable but require a specific client, like frp or localtunnel.
- ▪Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and nginx Vincent Bernat October 3, 2026 6-minute read Also available in français Filed under web A friend wants to proofread your work-in-progress blog post, but its preview only runs on localhost:8080.
- ▪Some run as a commercial service, like ngrok or Cloudflare Quick Tunnels.
- ▪Some are self-hostable but require a specific client, like frp or localtunnel.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Front Page) |
| Canonical URL | https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-http-over-ssh |
| Publication time | Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:25:10 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-04T23:06:02.197Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-04T23:06:02.197Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | fhOxR_1NCe9F · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and nginx Vincent Bernat October 3, 2026 6-minute read Also available in français Filed under web A friend wants to proofread your work-in-progress blog post, but its preview only runs on localhost:8080. Several tools can help. Some run as a commercial service, like ngrok or Cloudflare Quick Tunnels. Some are self-hostable but require a specific client, like frp or localtunnel. Some only require a plain SSH client but rely on a specific SSH server, like sish.
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