Connect remotely (bind to 0.0.0.0)

[jeroen]

I would like to SSH into my remote machine, and see plots locally in my browser. However if I bind to the default 127.0.0.1 then we cannot connect from outside.

So instead on the remote machine, I start with:

httpgd::httpgd('0.0.0.0')
# httpgd live server running at:
#   http://0.0.0.0:33095/live?token=WNoy3Nsn

My local browser can connect to the remote http server (if I replace 0.0.0.0 with my hostname) however the html/js client page doesn't work because javascript is trying to connect to 0.0.0.0.

I also tried starting the server with httpgd::httpgd('actual.hostname.com') but then I couldn't even connect to the http server remotely.

[renkun-ken]

I remember I tried this a while ago and it worked (or I don't remember correctly?). I just tried again with a remote server listening 0.0.0.0 and it does not work but listening its real intranet IP works (I connect to the intranet from outside via sshuttle).

[jeroen]

Yes using the host ip address seems to work. But it would be nice if it would work with 0.0.0.0 as well.

You probably need to change the html/js client to use the same server address for polling as in window.location because the real intranet IP is often different when the server is behind a proxy.

[renkun-ken]

Yes, definitely.

[nx10]

Thank you for opening the issue. I just pushed changes that should solve this (0d931080391e8d2d6153e35e9e7c73ffd02ddc36). The html/js client will now access the address to which the GET /live request was sent.

[jeroen]

Hmm it's not working for me. The server is just giving me 401's with "Unauthorized." and the client seems to be assuming json

[nx10]

Last commit broke the security tokens. Should work now aaf803f67bf4b47fee1b203daf4b5cc5e97fe201

[renkun-ken]

It works for me now. Thanks!