In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why you might need to tunnel to your local computer, and how to set that up securely.

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Show Notes

• 00:24 Welcome
• 01:09 GitHub tarball web streams
• 05:09 Sponsor: Sentry
• 05:48 Why would I need security locally?
• Caddy Server
• 11:23 Cookie issues
• 13:04 Examples of things that need a secure context
• MDN Features restricted to secure contexts
• 14:58 What is tunneling?
• 19:22 Cloudflare Tunnels
• Cloudflared
• Cloudflare Tunnel
• 20:50 nGrok
• ngrok
• 23:22 Local tunnel
• Local Tunnel
• 24:55 Tunnel to
• Tunnel to dev - Expose your local web server to the internet with a public URL
• 26:02 Cloudflare subdomain

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