Comments on: Using SSH Tunnels to develop Facebook Applications

By: Maiden Name

Maiden Name — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:34:55 +0000

Just tried it and it worked like a charm! Thanks Dbt, really appreciate the input!

By: Domain Names

Domain Names — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:02:33 +0000

It's great for secure communications. But, have you ever tried to develop Facebook Tunnels for SSH Applications? Now that is the challenge. Aw.. It's getting late!

By: dbt

dbt — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:02:39 +0000

You're not binding to a privileged port, that's only stuff under 1024. So you don't need to log in as root to bind to 8090 at all. Try it!

By: shaneel

shaneel — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:31:58 +0000

Thankyou very much , finally i have a hope to start with.
Well done.
Please be prepared for more questions

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:44:14 +0000

Cool Blog!

I was doing it already though, without encryption… I don’t see why this is useful.

My problem was how to work from work

Except from that, editing the files locally is something you can’t compete with, although I’m using mercurial as a source code repository, this way I’m tracking changes and are able to remotely work on the project.

By: Robin Bolton

Robin Bolton — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:43:58 +0000

Excellent tip. Even with my current single command deployment process (Ant build file which calls rsync), your method will save loads of time during development.

By: Erez Segal

Erez Segal — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:21:17 +0000

Amazing! This should be on the main page of the developers wiki!

By: Facebook Application Development How-to: 11 Tips You Don’t Want to Miss | Cognition

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:36:47 +0000

[...] to have a second application, in developer mode, and mapped to a special port that forwards traffic to your local development machine through an ssh tunnel. Read my previous blog post on how to set this [...]

By: admin

admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:17:48 +0000

Philipp Wassibauer over at Maptales has expanded on this with instructions for how to do this on a Windows machine, using Putty.

Check it out:

http://maptalesteam.blogspot.com/2008/02/ssh-tunnel-for-local-facebook-and.html