Introducing Malai TCP

malai-0.2.3 is out now! It brings a new feature to share your local TCP server with the world!

Now you can share any TCP-based service running locally — including your Postgres database, Redis, or even a custom TCP protocol — using the same seamless workflow that you used with malai http.

Install malai today using:

curl -fsSL https://malai.sh/install.sh | sh

Lang:

bash

And run:

$ malai tcp 5432 --public
Malai: Sharing port 5432
Run malai tcp-bridge <id52> <some-port>
to connect to it from any machine.

Lang:

bash

This will share your local TCP server running on port 5432 with the world. You can connect to it from any machine using the command:

$ malai tcp-bridge <id52> 9091
Listening on 127.0.0.1:9091

Lang:

bash

Now you can connect to localhost:9091 and it'll go through malai and connect to the exposed service.

Use cases

Share a local Postgres or Redis instance with your team.
Demo a multiplayer game server or custom TCP service.
Students can share networked apps or environments with instructors for real-time help or grading.

To learn more about malai tcp, check out the documentation.

Wait, we have more!

We've also added a new malai folder command to share a folder with everyone This is similar to malai http but it serves your local files and folders. This is more like a call for testing than launching a new feature. Try it out and give us feedback!

malai folder Example

$ malai folder ~/projects/fastn/assets/ --public
Serving "/Users/siddhant/projects/fastn/assets" on http://127.0.0.1:59136
Malai: Sharing http://127.0.0.1:59136 at
https://pubqaksutn9im0ncln2bki3i8diekh3sr4vp94o2cg1agjrb8dhg.kulfi.site
To avoid the public proxy, run your own with: malai http-bridge

Or use: malai browse kulfi://pubqaksutn9im0ncln2bki3i8diekh3sr4vp94o2cg1agjrb8dhg

Lang:

bash

This spins up a basic http server behind the scenes to serve the provided folder:

Browsing a folder served by malai

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