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Purportedly Browserstack can be used to do "local testing". When using Chrome or FireFox this default supported and should work transparently.

There is not a lof of documentation on how this should work so this makes me wonder if this is done in practice.

For example, I have a private website that I can only reach using the proxy server that is also used to access public URL's. I think that Browserstack considers this website public somehow and so it fails to reach this website.

Also I noticed - since installing the Browserstack extension - FireFox is crashing like there is no tomorrow.

This also makes me wonder how well this works in practice. I can't imagine any serious testing being done with combination of FireFox/Browserstack and local testing.

Is Browserstack used in practice for testing private servers? How is this done?

onknows
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Currently browserstack doesn't support local testing via extension when your local testing server is behind a proxy.

In this case you need to use Browserstack binary with parameters 

./BrowserStackLocal --key <your_key> --proxy-host <proxy_host> --proxy-port <proxy_port>

Binary can be used to do Live testing on safari/IE or to run automate tests.

If you are facing issues while using your extension (i.e. firefox crashing) . I would recommend you to contact support @browserstack.

Bipul Jain
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I managed to get it working using the following command line

./BrowserStackLocal --key ******* --proxy-host 10.122.*.*\ 
--proxy-port 3128 --local-proxy-host 10.122.*.*\
--local-proxy-port 3128  --only devops.ok,443,1

Notice there are two entries for the proxy server proxy-host and local-proxy-host. The first is used to create the tunnel to browserstack.com. The second one local-proxy-host tells browserstack to also use the proxy server to connect to my internal server devops.ok.

devops.ok,443,1 is hostname and port, the 1 is for https.

onknows
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