🔒 Netfox 0.13.0 — the endpoint that refuses to be careless

🔒 Netfox 0.13.0 — the endpoint that refuses to be careless

Netfox can expose a read-only metrics endpoint, so your own monitoring can scrape your network. Handy — and, it turns out, far too easy to leave wide open.

Switch on "allow access from other devices" without setting a token and that endpoint was reachable from anywhere on your network with no authentication at all. What it serves is your entire device inventory: every IP, every MAC address, every hostname, every open port. 😬

That's fixed, and it's the kind of fix I'd rather tell you about than quietly bury in a changelog.

🚫 It fails closed. No token, no network endpoint. Netfox refuses to start it and tells you exactly why, right where you turned it on — instead of serving your LAN to the room and hoping you noticed the help text.

Settings → Integrations, where the endpoint now explains itself

🔑 Your token is treated like a secret. It lives in your keychain now, not in a preferences file, and the field hides it as you type — so it stops appearing on screen during a demo or a screen share. An existing token moves across automatically; you don't re-enter anything.

⏱️ Constant-time token checks, because how long a rejection takes shouldn't hint at how close a guess was.

If you scrape the endpoint over your network: set a token after updating and it starts right back up. Localhost-only setups — what almost everyone runs — are untouched and still need no token.

⌨️ And the part you asked for: the built-in web viewer's address bar is editable. Jump straight to /admin, try another port, flip http↔https — no more closing the window and starting over just to reach a different page.

A device's own web interface, rendered inside Netfox

🎯 The host stays locked to the device you're inspecting. That's the whole point of the viewer, so it isn't editable: type a different address and Netfox tells you it's locked here rather than following you off-device.

Changing the port re-points the lock instead of loosening it, and keeps your current path.

Free, native, notarized. macOS 15+. No account, no telemetry, nothing leaves your Mac on its own.

👉 Try it / see what's new: https://netfox.app

If you run Netfox alongside Prometheus or Grafana, I'd love to hear how you've wired it up — and what you'd want the viewer to reach next 👀