madhurjain / gopee

:cloud: Full-Fledged, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go

gopee

HTTP Web Proxy - full-fledged, self-hosted proxy to access blocked websites

Demo

https://gopee.herokuapp.com/ (Terminated by Heroku)

or

http://go-gopee.rhcloud.com/

Deploying This Application

• Fork this repo

• Update .godir to match your forked repo url

Deploy to heroku

• Download and Setup Heroku Toolbelt https://toolbelt.heroku.com/

• Clone the forked repo locally and cd gopee

• Create a new Heroku app, telling it to use the Go Heroku Buildpack to build your Go code

heroku create -b https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go.git

Creating polar-harbor-5778... done, stack is cedar-14
BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go.git
https://polar-harbor-5778.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/polar-harbor-5778.git
Git remote heroku added

• Push the code to Heroku

git push heroku master

Deploy to OpenShift by Red Hat

• Download and Setup OpenShift Client Tools (rhc) https://developers.openshift.com/en/managing-client-tools.html

• Create a new OpenShift application, telling it to use the OpenShift Go Cartridge to build your Go code and your forked github repo for Source

rhc app create myproxy https://cartreflect-claytondev.rhcloud.com/reflect?github=smarterclayton/openshift-go-cart --from-code <forked-github-repo-url>

Your application 'myproxy' is now available.
  URL:        http://myproxy-gopee.rhcloud.com/
  SSH to:     <hash>@myproxy-gopee.rhcloud.com
  Git remote: ssh://<hash>@myproxy-gopee.rhcloud.com/~/git/myproxy.git/

• Open the above URL in your browser

• Login to your OpenShift console and you should see an application created

Features

• Most AJAX requests are proxied

• Supports Sessions, Cookies, Logging-In on most websites

Errata

• GMail and YouTube don't work

Why ?

• To learn Golang

• To create a simple to deploy yet powerful proxy

Credits

@Omie for pushing me to learn Go and introducing me to Heroku and OpenShift