Enable the Force Local and Force Proxy flags

Understand how and when to use Force Local and Force Proxy.

You can enable the Force Local and Force Proxy flags to force BrowserStackLocal to resolve all connections through your local network or proxy, instead of resolving the requests through the public internet.

Enable Force Local

The Force Local flag ensures that, regardless of any other setting, no asset will be resolved through the public internet and any resolution of URLs that your BrowserStack device does will be routed through the Local tunnel. This flag is typically used to ensure network compliance.

You can enable Force Local from the App Live test session by following these steps:

1. Go to the App Live dashboard.
2. On the toolbar, click Local Testing.
3. On the Local Testing prompt, select Resolve all URLs through my network.
   The test session restarts with the updated Local settings. On the toolbar, you can see that Force Local is on.
   

You can also enable Force Local from the Local Console or command-line interface. To enable Force Local from the Local Console or command-line interface, follow these steps:

Enable Force Proxy

The Force Proxy flag routes all traffic through the proxy you configured. Otherwise, the BrowserStackLocal binary tries to connect directly as well for better performance.

To enable Force Proxy, follow these steps:

Related topics

• For a complete list of BrowserStackLocal flags, see Flags for Local binary.