ssltunnel

Do you want to feel uncomfortably secure, but don't want to set up a real SSL enabled web server for your development environment?

Good News! ssltunnel is the answer!

Installation

If you don't have Go on your system, I have some precompiled binaries available. I don't have access to test all of them though so if there is a problem please let me know.

If you have Go installed on your system:

$ go get github.com/jakebasile/ssltunnel

Usage

$ ssltunnel -wrap 8080 -serve 8443

This will start listening on 0.0.0.0:8443 with SSL, proxying all requests to 127.0.0.1:8080. It automatically makes a self signed cert covering the ip address 0.0.0.0. If you want to use a special hostname, do this instead:

$ ssltunnel -in 8080 -out 8443 -hosts superspecial.example.com,superspecial2.example.com

Then, you can either modify your /etc/hosts file to point those host names to 127.0.0.1 or set up your own DNS magic.

NOTE: If you want to change the hostname you need to delete the key and cert file already generated.