However, in the /usr/share/speedifyui/files folder, I noticed files that looked suspiciously like those that would be served by a web server. Unlike on the Macbook, there was no process listening on localhost:9331 when the full Speedify client is started on Linux. Speedify’s GUI in a browser on Linuxīy chance, I was running the full Speedify client on a computer with a Linux Desktop. Unfortunately, it is not that straightforward.

So maybe, if Speedify CLI is running on a device, the GUI can be accessed by accessing device_ip_addr:9331 in a browser from another computer? Seemed worth a shot. So it seems that the Speedify GUI is essentially a locally served web page and the Speedify client (at least for Mac) is just a thin application window around the web page. Curious, I typed that into a web browser and hey presto! saw Speedify’s GUI in the browser. On starting the client, Activity Monitor showed a process listening on localhost:9331. It all started when I was running the Speedify client on my MacbookPro. This endeavor wouldn’t have succeeded without some serendipity and dogged tinkering. or is it? I figured out a way to access Speedify’s UI while running the CLI client on a headless server with no GUI desktop installed 🙂 Understanding how Speedify’s GUI works The lack of a graphical interface means that Speedify’s nice and useful UI is not available. Speedify’s command line client executes on a Linux router that runs Ubuntu Server 20.04 without a graphical interface. , I described using a service named Speedify to simultaneously utilize two different Internet connections. The last section of this post also describes an alternative solutionĬontributed by a reader of this blog. , or read through the background and tinkering that preceded the actual solution.

You can jump straight to the actual solution The pattern: How to remotely access a service that is bound to localhost and refuses to respond to requests not originating from localhost? The instance: If using Speedify CLI on a linux-based router with no GUI stack, how to nevertheless view the Speedify GUI in a web browser, from another device on the same network? This post documents some non-conventional hacks needed to get a working solution.

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