webpack dev server on remote galaxy server

client/README.md

@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ environment variable:
 
     GALAXY_URL="http://localhost:8000" make client-dev-server
 
+Sometimes you want to run your UI against a remote Galaxy server. This is also possible, if you enable `CHANGE_ORIGIN` flag 
+
+    CHANGE_ORIGIN=true GALAXY_URL="https://usegalaxy.org/" make client-dev-server
+
 ## Changing Styles/CSS
 
 Galaxy uses Sass for its styling, which is a superset of CSS that compiles down

client/webpack.config.js

@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ module.exports = (env = {}, argv = {}) => {
             proxy: {
                 "/": {
                     target: process.env.GALAXY_URL || "http://localhost:8080",
+                    secure: process.env.CHANGE_ORIGIN ? !process.env.CHANGE_ORIGIN : true,
+                    changeOrigin: !!process.env.CHANGE_ORIGIN,
                 },
             },
         },