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Feature request on more tunneling options

Open KasRoudra opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Feature Request

A clear description of what the feature request is

Currently seeker has only one tunneler serveo which is buggy. So, are you planning to add some new tunnelers like cloudflared or ngrok as built in support? You can keep this simple version of seeker in main branch and open a new branch where seeker contains three or more tunnelers. If you agree I will start working on this extended seeker


KasRoudra avatar Jan 25 '22 15:01 KasRoudra

@KasRoudra serveo will be removed in a future update which is coming soon, I dont plan on adding any tunnel options in the tool itself, seeker is for advanced users who can easily open a second terminal and use a service of their choice. The approach of adding inbuilt support for tunnel services is not a good way forward as it is difficult to cover all device architectures for example in the case of ngrok, and most tools which are using this approach are buggy as well. I think opening a second terminal and running a tunnel service isnt hard at all and if someone is struggling with this then they should not be using the tool in the first place, it clearly shows that they lack basic linux knowledge and are directly jumping to tools which is not a good approach

thewhiteh4t avatar Jan 25 '22 15:01 thewhiteh4t

i can add usage instructions for various tunnel services though that should be useful. Other than that if a tunnel service does not require binaries then maybe I will think about adding built in support for them

thewhiteh4t avatar Jan 25 '22 15:01 thewhiteh4t

@thewhiteh4t Thank you for fast response. I agree that those who can't use ngrok or cloudflared in second terminal, shouldn't use seeker. But still we can keep a seeker which can handle everything alone without any second terminal. Current seeker is lightweight and do not contain any binaries. We mustn't change it. Rather, I was suggesting for a new branch where the experimental seeker will remain. Currently, tunnelers have support for common 3-4 architectures. Only one or two might be missing. Although not completely free from bug, cloudflared showed less error than ngrok.

Here is a demo

Screenshot_2022-01-24-20-50-41

KasRoudra avatar Jan 25 '22 16:01 KasRoudra