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    Inbound IP Whitelisting

    This guide shows you how BrowserStack’s inbound IP Whitelisting feature works.

    Introduction

    If you want the BrowserStack cloud to directly resolve your IP-restricted assets without passing through the Binary, we provide another solution – inbound IP whitelisting.

    Pre-requisites

    • Your network resources are publicly discoverable (private.mywebsite.com) but access restricted based on the IP of the requester.

    • You can whitelist a static set of IPs to allow them access for the above.

    What is IP Whitelisting?

    IP Whitelisting is a BrowserStack solution where, instead of doing resolution of local assets via the Binary or the Chrome application, the BrowserStack cloud directly accesses your assets via a limited and secure set of machines whose IPs have been whitelisted by your network administrator.

    How does it work?

    How does it work
    • E1 Host Machine makes a call to BrowserStack backend, to signal start of testing session.

    • E2 Backend allocates an appropriate device as per requested capabilities, and asks the device to use the Repeater as a proxy.

    • E3 Backend informs the Repeater of the device allocated to the session, and asks it to allow the allocated device to use it as a proxy.

    • E4 Devices start making all network calls via the Repeater.

    • E5 Repeater checks if the request can be resolved via the public internet, or if it needs access to your network.

      Note: This can be disabled with our 'force-local' modifier, making everything go through your network.

    • E6 Repeater hits the your internal network to resolve the request. There are 2 pre-requisites:
      1. You can only resolve public-internet resources which are access-restricted to IPs within your network.
      2. You will need to whitelist inbound traffic from a set of our Repeaters. We will share a list of IPs with your company, which will need to be granted access.

        If you don't want to grant access to a large set, you can opt to have a dedicated Repeater for your account, which will be exclusively set aside for resolution to your network.

    Entities:

    1. Your Network: Your subnet, controlled by your network regulator.
    2. Your Firewall: The firewall being used inside your network.
    3. Host Machine: The machine running your tests. This can but doesn’t have to be the same as the one running Your Application Server.
    4. Your Application Server: The internal staging which hosts your local assets.
    5. BrowserStack Backend: Our application for verifying credentials and general housekeeping.
    6. Repeater: Highly secure intermediary between your network and ours.
    7. Devices: Real devices, hosted in BrowserStack datacenters across the world.
    8. Public Internet: The rest of the publicly accessible internet.

    Other FAQs

    Q: How many IPs will I need to whitelist?

    A: Depends. We provide two tiers of access for clients:

    • Shared IP whitelisting, where you will need to provide our entire fleet access
    • Dedicated IP whitelisting, where we will set aside a machine for interfacing with your network and your network alone.

    Q: What if I want to access my localhost or other non-public parts of the subnet?

    A: Unfortunately, you can’t access your non-public subnet via IP Whitelisting. You can, however, use a combination of the Local Binary or the Chrome application to achieve that.

    Q: How do I get started with IP Whitelisting?

    A: Get in touch!

    In This Article

    • Introduction
    • Pre-requisites
    • What is IP Whitelisting?
    • How does it work?
    • Other FAQs

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