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What deficiencies of http://www.reversehttp.net/ is this trying to solve?

I've been happy with the reliability of reversehttp for all the testing I've done with it.

If you're using ruby, hookout does a great job running your rack app as a reversehttp endpoint: http://github.com/paulj/hookout

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ReverseHTTP is just a spec and not a very popular one. Localtunnel is based on SSH tunneling which has been around longer than ReverseHTTP, especially for this particular purpose. And while Hookout is a great tool, I'm not sure why it was made specific to Ruby Rack...

You mean a spec, and an implementation, right? ;-) (http://github.com/tonyg/reversehttp) While I can't speak to its popularity, I'll note that it works with plain ol' HTTP, no reliance on SSH in sight, meaning building a client for the protocol is a piece of cake. If you need a client implementation focussed on something other than Ruby Rack, you could probably whip one up in an hour or so.

I personally don't think popularity or how long something has been around have much to do with the merits of technologies. Fitness-for-purpose is much more interesting.

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