rathole/docs/out-of-scope.md

Out of Scope

rathole focuses on the forwarding for the NAT traversal, rather than being a all-in-one development tool or a load balancer or a gateway. It's designed to be used with them, not replace them.

But that doesn't mean it's not useful for other purposes. In the future, more configuration APIs will be added and rathole can be used with an external dashboard.

Make each program do one thing well.

• Domain based forwarding for HTTP

  Introducing these kind of features into rathole itself ultimately reinvent a nginx. Use nginx to do this and set rathole as the upstream. This method achieves better performance as well as flexibility.

• HTTP Request Logging

  rathole doesn't interference with the application layer traffic. A right place for this kind of stuff is the web server, and a network capture tool.

• frp's STCP

  You may want to consider secure tunnels like wireguard or zerotier.

• P2P hole punching

  P2P hole punching requires setup on the visitors' side. If that kind of setup is possible, then there are a lot more tools available. rathole primarily focuses on NAT traversal by forwarding, which doesn't require any setup for visitors.