I’ve been able to set up sending and listening to http requests locally using 127.0.0.1:8000. I want to try doing it using the internet now.

I have a VPN with port forwarding enabled, but sending requests to that IP address and port does not yield a response like it did when doing it locally.

Can anyone clarify which address I should be listening on in order to receive http requests from the internet? I tried 0.0.0.0 and a few inet addresses from ip add, but none of them work.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      21 hours ago

      From what I’ve gathered, either this guy is honestly trying to learn how to set up an http server that he built, which great but good luck finding a von that will NAT requests to you… Or …

      He thinks internet traffic is blasted to every computer out there and wants to “listen” for it. Honestly I can’t tell and they can’t describe the problem in a way where we can help them

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        10 hours ago

        Seems like lots of vpn providers offer port forwarding after a fashion. It surprised me too but there were summary comparisons just a search away.

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        19 hours ago

        The person above probably should not be exposing something to the internet.

        Chances are they just want a simple environment to play in which is easily provided by either a virtual lab or a local network.

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          18 hours ago

          Agreed. I’ve been self hosting for well over a decade now and I can count how many services I expose on one hand, and they are very curated. He’s trying to convince people he knows what he’s doing, but I’m not convinced he’s not trying to be a leet haxxor