The Web Proxy widget is similar to the default Homey Webframe widget, because they both display a custom web page. Homey’s Webframe widget is loading the page, including all resources it requires (images, stylesheets, scripts) from your mobile device. However, this does not work if you want to use a webserver on your local network in your Dashboards, since it doesn’t work if you’re away from home.
The Web Proxy widget solves this by sending all web requests through your Homey. It works like this:
The web requests include the HTML page itself, and its resources (images, stylesheets, scripts, etc.)
The Web Proxy app doesn’t only proxy requests, it also modifies the HTML page to inject the resources that are included (images, stylesheets, scripts, etc.)
