Pre-release. HareBox is a working local build with no public service yet. Statuses on every feature say what runs today; speed and reliability figures are targets until measured. Status

Public endpoints

Works locallyWorks in the local build today.

Expose a port inside a sandbox at a private HTTPS URL. Requests reach the VM through HareBox's edge, which checks access, then tunnels into the VM through the guest agent, so nothing in the VM needs a public address. Every HTTP method, streaming responses and WebSockets pass through. HareBox removes its own token and cookie before a request reaches your app.

Status: served for real to local VMs, and checked by HareBox's real-VM tests. Public DNS and TLS for *.on.harebox.com need a deployment.

harebox new --name web
harebox host current 3000 --title App
harebox host list current
Access Who can open it
token (default) Anyone with the full URL. Treat it as a password
public Anyone
oidc, mtls Fails closed until a provider is connected. Planned

Rotate a token

Rotation is atomic. The old and new tokens both work during the overlap, and the URL is never open without one.

harebox new --name rot
EP=$(harebox host current 3000 | jq -r .id)
harebox host rotate current "$EP" --overlap-seconds 60

Wake on request

An incoming request wakes a sleeping sandbox, and its dev server is still running. The first request after sleep sees added latency. Turn this off with wake_on_request: false.

Custom domains

harebox domain add --name preview.example.com

The response lists the DNS records to create. In this local build, DNS and TLS aren't connected, so a domain stays pending_dns.

View as Markdownllms.txt for agents