[REQUEST] Support for dynamic URLs

[danielskovli]

Description

My Flame site has a bunch of links to local docker services, which are targeted with my server's static LAN address. This works if I'm also on the same local network, but does not resolve if I'm using a VPN connection to reach the server.

Currently I have injected a small piece of javascript that simply replaces this static IP with a window.location.hostname lookup. This solves my problem well enough, but is bolted on in a very unsustainable way.

Would you consider adding support for dynamic links? If so, would you like me to pitch you an implementation proposal in a PR?

[dustojnikhummer]

I really don't want to be the "why are you doing A, you should be doing B", but wouldn't a better solution to be either a) make your internal IP routable through your VPN or b) use DNS for this? What VPN are you using where your server's local IP wouldn't be accessible through your VPN but a hostname would be? Or why not use the hostname in both cases?

[danielskovli]

Not bad questions 🫠

This particular setup is Unraid with Tailscale, and unless I'm mistaken Tailscale doesn't expose the internal IP the way a more traditional VPN does. The DNS option could solve this, since Tailscale adds a hostname alias to the Unraid node, but that would require a bit more rigging on my LAN to resolve the same hostname (I think). So I ended up with the couple of javascript because it solved my very specific issue quickly.

[dustojnikhummer]

I don't use Tailscale so can't comment on that, but the "VPN" way to do this would be to set up an exit node on your network

https://tailscale.com/docs/features/exit-nodes