Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

Posted by jcbhmr 20 hours ago

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels(try.cloudflare.com)

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afisxisto 17 hours ago|

I quite like pinggy for this. You don't need to install anything, since it uses a plain SSH tunnel.

ssh -p 443 -R0:localhost:9051 free.pinggy.io

(Free for 1h each session)

mitxela 10 hours ago||

You can also do this on any server you have:

ssh -R 0.0.0.0:80:localhost:9051 myserver

Make sure server sshd config has: GatewayPorts yes

ghoshbishakh 16 hours ago||

Thanks for sharing.

- Co-founder of Pinggy.

Narciss 18 hours ago||

My AI discovered this days ago when I wanted to deploy a new vibe coded website (it was to keep score while playing whist and rentz)

Thought it was very cool

rock_artist 17 hours ago||

What's surprised me, just earlier today I let Codex write a minor PR for simple open-source webapp. I needed HTTPS for testing secured context Web API. (Web Bluetooth)

While testing it locally Codex by itself suggests using CF Tunnels but what's more interesting it actually used the Quick Tunnels.

Coming from days where I get warnings of vibe-coded generated code using deprecated code or older APIs, I must say using something so fresh is quite impressive.

awwaiid 15 hours ago|

As far as I know this has been a provided feature of cloudflare for several years. I don't understand why it was posted today.

pocksuppet 14 hours ago||

This is obviously vibe written, and I can't wait to see how quickly it will be shut down after someone uses it in combination with Mullvad to host child pornography.

Mullvad themselves already turned off port forwarding because people were using it to host child pornography. This is like Mullvad's port forwarding, but free.

throawayonthe 14 hours ago|

they've been running the tunnels service for years

and they also provide web hosting..

kalcode 14 hours ago||

It's the AI witch-hunt these days. Salam trails coming soon to you're nearest artist! "That's AI!!!"

Sigh... HN littered with it these days.

opengrass 13 hours ago||

This is my docker compose for sharing files with randoms online https://pastebin.com/raw/cYV7ksw9

Don't pass -d, your tunnel URL prints in the console and you can download dirs as tarball.

itvision 3 hours ago||

The RAM pricing crisis is doing wonders to the software industry. Amazing.

girvo 12 hours ago||

This is super neat! I rely on normal Cloudflare Tunnels for my self-hosted website/web apps, works shockingly well all things considered.

It was pretty easy to setup… but I cheated, and use Dokploy which handled most of it AFAICT

JV00 19 hours ago||

Does this have a more generous allowance than ngrok? From what I can read no limits are mentioned

raahelb 18 hours ago||

These are the limitations mentioned on the docs [1]. Quick Tunnels are subject to a hard limit on the number of concurrent requests that can be proxied at any point in time. Currently, this limit is 200 in-flight requests. If a Quick Tunnel hits this limit, the HTTP response will return a 429 status code. Quick Tunnels do not support Server-Sent Events (SSE).

[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/co...

daemonologist 19 hours ago||

I don't know if there's an overall limit, but their regular tunnels have a limit of 100 MB per request which breaks stuff like Immich.

Nevin1901 7 hours ago||

Cloudflare tunnels are really useful when dealing with webhooks. Way better than Ngrok and you can set it up on a custom subdomain you own. eg: site.yourdomain.com

everybodyknows 17 hours ago|

The page is a fine exemplar of marketing deception. Banner says:

> Free, secure tunnel for everything you are building.

> Preview and ship ideas globally in seconds with Quick Tunnels. Deploy your local application to the Internet with a single command.

Clicking through Explore Cloudflare Tunnel leads us to:

> Looking to expose public applications? This documentation covers Cloudflare Tunnel use cases for private networking and Zero Trust, like VPN replacement and private network access. For publishing public web applications, APIs, and services to the Internet through Cloudflare refer to ...

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