dank-connect-proxy

Connect Proxy

Proxy a request to another server

Usage

proxy(host, port, secure);

or

proxy({
	host : 'server.com'
	, port : 8080
	, secure : false
	, hostname : 'host.server.com'
});

or

proxy('server.com:8888')

Example

var connect = require('connect')
	, proxy = require('connect-proxy')
	, app = connect.createServer();

app.use('/images', proxy('internal-image-cluster.mysite.com'));
app.use('/thumbs', proxy('internal-thumb-generator.mysite.com'));
app.use('/legacy', proxy('some-old-iis-app.mysite.com', 8080));

app.listen(3000);

My Use Case

I have been in the process of converting our existing web applications to node. In my connect routes my last ditch effort to handle a request unhandled by any other middleware is to proxy it to a legacy backend server which serves up the old version of the application.

That way I can migrate portions of the existing application piece by piece and register routes for those bits which have been migrated. If the URL is unhandled then it seamlessly gets passed to a backend server.

TODO

Add a way to mangle the request url or other request options

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Dan VerWeire

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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