Testing box application from virtual machine
Box requires you to use HTTPS for any URL other than localhost. Unfortunately, I developed on a Linux virtual machine running inside a Windows machine, and I want to access the server running on Linux from a browser in Windows. Therefore, I cannot use localhost.
Is there a way that I test out my box application without needing to create a certificate on my Linux machine?
Yes. You can use an SSH tunnel.
Set up an SSH server on the Linux machine (make sure you secure it if it's accessible from the Internet)
Use a Windows SSH client (like plink or cygwin's SSH client) to create a tunnel to the desired port (80?) of the Linux box. For example, if you're using plink:
C:>plink.exe -L 1234:127.0.0.1:80 <username>@<Linux machine IP>
using cygwin, the command would be the same:
$ ssh -L 1234:127.0.01:80 <username>@<Linux machine IP>
This will establish a tunnel between the Windows machine's local port 1234 (127.0.0.1:1234) and the Linux machines port 80 (127.0.0.1:80). So if you open a browser on the Windows machine and point it to 127.0.0.1:1234, you'll really be connecting to 127.0.0.1:80 of the Linux machine.
There are some nice tutorials on SSH tunnels, but make sure you're reading about the right type of tunnel. They come in 3 forms - Local ( -L ), Remote ( -R ) and Dynamic ( -D ). You need the local one.
To debug the tunnel, you can use nc . Use something like nc -l 127.0.0.1 80 to get nc to listen on 127.0.0.1:80, then try using the tunnel from the Windows browser. You should see the HTTP request in nc .
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