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http-proxy-agent
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Package description
The http-proxy-agent package is used to provide an HTTP(s) proxy Agent which can be used with the http or https modules in Node.js. It allows you to proxy HTTP/HTTPS requests to another server, which is useful for various scenarios such as connecting through corporate firewalls, caching, or filtering.
Creating an HTTP proxy agent
This code sample demonstrates how to create an HTTP proxy agent with the http-proxy-agent package and use it to make a GET request to a target server through a proxy.
const HttpProxyAgent = require('http-proxy-agent');
const agent = new HttpProxyAgent('http://proxy-server.com:8080');
const http = require('http');
const requestOptions = {
host: 'target-server.com',
port: 80,
path: '/',
agent: agent
};
http.get(requestOptions, (res) => {
console.log(`Got response: ${res.statusCode}`);
// consume response body
res.resume();
}).on('error', (e) => {
console.error(`Got error: ${e.message}`);
});
Creating an HTTPS proxy agent
This code sample shows how to create an HTTPS proxy agent with the http-proxy-agent package to make a GET request to a secure target server through a proxy.
const HttpsProxyAgent = require('http-proxy-agent');
const agent = new HttpsProxyAgent('https://proxy-server.com:8080');
const https = require('https');
const requestOptions = {
host: 'secure-target-server.com',
port: 443,
path: '/',
agent: agent
};
https.get(requestOptions, (res) => {
console.log(`Got response: ${res.statusCode}`);
// consume response body
res.resume();
}).on('error', (e) => {
console.error(`Got error: ${e.message}`);
});
The https-proxy-agent package provides similar functionality to http-proxy-agent but is specifically designed for HTTPS connections. It allows you to tunnel HTTPS requests through an HTTP proxy.
The socks-proxy-agent package is similar to http-proxy-agent but supports SOCKS proxy servers. It can be used to connect through SOCKS4, SOCKS4A, or SOCKS5 proxies.
The proxy-agent package is a more general solution that supports multiple proxy protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS. It can automatically determine the correct agent to use based on the given proxy URL.
Readme
http.Agent
implementation for HTTPThis module provides an http.Agent
implementation that connects to a specified
HTTP or HTTPS proxy server, and can be used with the built-in http
module.
Note: For HTTP proxy usage with the https
module, check out
https-proxy-agent
.
import * as http from 'http';
import { HttpProxyAgent } from 'http-proxy-agent';
const agent = new HttpProxyAgent('http://168.63.76.32:3128');
http.get('http://nodejs.org/api/', { agent }, (res) => {
console.log('"response" event!', res.headers);
res.pipe(process.stdout);
});
The HttpProxyAgent
class implements an http.Agent
subclass that connects
to the specified "HTTP(s) proxy server" in order to proxy HTTP requests.
The proxy
argument is the URL for the proxy server.
The options
argument accepts the usual http.Agent
constructor options, and
some additional properties:
headers
- Object containing additional headers to send to the proxy server
in each request. This may also be a function that returns a headers object.
NOTE: If your proxy does not strip these headers from the request, they will also be sent to the destination server.
FAQs
An HTTP(s) proxy `http.Agent` implementation for HTTP
The npm package http-proxy-agent receives a total of 36,784,304 weekly downloads. As such, http-proxy-agent popularity was classified as popular.
We found that http-proxy-agent demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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