grunt-stunnel v0.2.1

grunt-stunnel

Grunt plugin for using stunnel (intended for use with grunt-php).

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-stunnel --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-stunnel');

The "stunnel" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named stunnel to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  stunnel: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

Options that are mapped directly to stunnel can be found in man stunnel(3) or here.

options.bin

Type: String Default value: stunnel3

Path to the stunnel binary, by default uses stunnel3

options.pem REQUIRED

Type: String Default value: undefined

Path to a pemfile, this can be self-signed. For instructions on how to generate a .pem, see here. This parameter maps to stunnel -p.

options.port

Type: Integer Default value: 8443

The port which the stunnel wrapper will be available on. Maps to stunnel -d.

options.remote.host

Type: String Default value: '127.0.0.1'

The host of the remote service to wrap. This combines with the options.remote.port to create the stunnel -r argument.

options.remote.port

Type: Integer Default value: 8000

The port of the remote service to wrap. This combines with the options.remote.host to create the stunnel -r argument.

options.pid

Type: String Default value: ./stunnel-${options.port}.pid

The path which to store the stunnel pid.

Usage Examples

NOTE A options.pem value is required in all instances.

Default Options

Assuming a vaild certificate is available at .cert/stunnel.pem and the grunt-php server running at it's defaults localhost:8000 the service will be made available using SSL at https://localhost:8443

grunt.initConfig({
  stunnel: {
    options: {
      pem: '.cert/stunnel.pem'
    }
  },
});

Custom Options

Assuming a vaild certificate is available at .cert/stunnel.pem and the grunt-php server running at localhost:8080 the service will be made available using SSL at https://localhost:8081

grunt.initConfig({
  stunnel: {
    options: {
      pem: '.cert/stunnel.pem',
      port: 8081,
      remote: {
        port: 8080
      }
    }
  },
});

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