Hubot behind firewall, can't connect

[slackapi]

Hubot behind firewall, can't connect

[grantmd]

Yes, it currently requires a publicly-accessible webserver to read messages from the slack side.

I'm gearing up to do a rewrite that will make a real-time socket connection to slack and not require that it be on a public server. This would allow it to run behind most firewalls. I don't have a timeline for it, though.

[altryne]

Can hubot be run through XMPP like it runs on other platforms?
I'm really looking for a way around this, as Slack seems super sleek and we really want to try it out

[altryne]

Or is there a way for me to use "https://github.com/tinyspeck/hammock" for working behind a firewall for certain commands?

[evansolomon]

We have a similar use case. I handled it by opening one port to the world and setting our hubot to serve traffic on that port. It's not perfect but it's worked well enough for us so far.

[patcon]

@altryne re: xmpp (and irc): https://twitter.com/avibryant/status/402925507500457984

[altryne]

@patcon been struggling, it seems that Slack doesn't support hubot over xmpp :/
I'm trying to resolve with support, will update if anything changes

[mbfrahry]

Hey @altryne. I'm having troubles getting hubot to talk to the internet from behind a firewall as well. Did you find any way to get around this?

[altryne]

Yeah @mbfrahry check out this ticket
#16