Use with SSH tunnels to hide a web application and access it locally.

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I just discovered a cool use case for mkcert, and wanted to say ❤️ 🥇 🪙 THANKS! To the mkcert authors for creating such a cool easy to use tool. Is there any where we can sponsor or support this project?

I found out you can:

1. Run a web application on a remote server (VPS, LAN, WLAN, public subnet, VPC) and note the ports it runs on. Use a firewall to shut access to those ports on the remote host!
2. Generate some localhost certificates for the application using mkcert localhost
3. Port forward from a local machine (intranet, your laptop, private subnet) using ssh -L local_port:remote_machine:remote_port user@remote_machine
4. Connect to the securely isolated web application from your local machine using the address https://localhost:local_port!!! 🤩

I think this is really cool to be able to run a web application in an isolated way and gate access to it, made so convenient by using mkcert. I made a guide about doing this for BrowserBox Pro here