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WebTTY vs ngrok: What are the differences?

# Key Differences: WebTTY vs ngrok

WebTTY and ngrok are both popular tools used by developers for remote access and testing. Below are some key differences between the two:

1. **Protocol Support**: WebTTY uses the WebSocket protocol for establishing a remote terminal connection, while ngrok uses both HTTP and TCP protocols for tunneling connections.

2. **Functionality**: WebTTY focuses primarily on providing a simple web-based terminal interface for remote access, while ngrok offers a broader range of features such as secure tunnels, request capturing, and inspecting traffic.

3. **Open Source vs Proprietary**: WebTTY is an open-source tool, which means it can be freely modified and distributed, while ngrok is a proprietary service that requires a paid subscription for advanced features like reserved domains and enhanced security.

4. **Installation**: WebTTY can be easily installed and run on any server or local machine using npm, while ngrok requires downloading and executing their binary files on the desired system.

5. **Customizability**: WebTTY allows for customization of the terminal interface using CSS, enabling developers to personalize the look and feel of the tool, whereas ngrok provides limited customization options mainly through their paid plans.

6. **Community Support**: WebTTY is maintained by a smaller community of developers compared to ngrok, which has a larger user base and more extensive documentation and support resources available.

In Summary, WebTTY and ngrok differ in protocol support, functionality, licensing, installation process, customizability, and community support.
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Pros of ngrok
Pros of WebTTY
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    Easy to use
  • 11
    Super-fast
  • 7
    Free
  • 6
    Awesome traffic analysis page
  • 5
    Reliable custom domains
  • 1
    Mobile development
  • 1
    Shares service-wide metrics
  • 0
    Supports UTP And HTTPS
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    Cons of ngrok
    Cons of WebTTY
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      Doesn't Support UDP
    • 1
      El tunel SSH cambia de dominio constantemente
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      What is ngrok?

      ngrok is a reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel between from a public endpoint to a locally running web service. ngrok captures and analyzes all traffic over the tunnel for later inspection and replay.

      What is WebTTY?

      WebTTY allows you to share a terminal session from your machine using WebRTC. You can pair with a friend without setting up a proxy server, debug servers behind NATs, and more. WebTTY also works in-browser.

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          What are some alternatives to ngrok and WebTTY?
          NGINX
          nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
          Heroku
          Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
          PageKite
          PageKite is a system for exposing localhost servers to the public Internet. It is most commonly used to make local web servers or SSH servers publicly visible, although almost any TCP-based protocol can work if the client knows how to use an HTTP proxy.
          Postman
          It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
          Git
          Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
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