cbt_tunnels

A python module to make using tunnels easy.

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pip

pip install cbttunnels

How to use

from cbttunnels.cbt_tunnels import CBTtunnel
tunnel = CBTtunnel(username="username", authkey="authkey")
tunnel.start_tunnel()
...
tunnel.kill_tunnel()

Features

• Automatically gets the correct tunnel for your platform
• Handles cleanly starting and stopping the tunnel connection
• Handles all features of the tunnel

Creating a tunnel object

The tunnel object is created with the following options:

• username ("") - CBT username
• authkey ("") - CBT authkey
• delete_after (False) - delete the tunnel binary after kill (note: on Windows, make sure backslashes are escaped \\)
• tunnel_location (".") - location to download tunnel zip/bianry to
• ready_file ("ready.check") - ready file for tunnel client
• kill_file ("kill.check") - kill file for tunnel client

Tunnel options

These are all methods available on the tunnel object

• bypass(bool) - enable or disable bypass
• set_https_proxy(string) - string should be the HTTPS proxy
• set_http_proxy(string) - same as above for HTTP
• set_tunnel_name(string) - set the name of the named tunnel
• set_pac_file(string) - set the client to use the PAC file at path string
• set_html_path(string) - set the path to use for local HTML files to be served
• set_proxy(host="string", port="string", username="string"/None, password="string/None) - set proxy settings
• set_accept_all_certs(bool) - set whether to accept all certs in the tunnel client