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simple-http-proxy
Advanced tools
Simple proxy middleware for connect/express
Create an http app
/**
* Module dependencies
*/
var express = require("express")
, proxy = require("simple-http-proxy");
/**
* Expose the app
*/
var app = module.exports = express();
/**
* Mount the proxy middleware
*/
app.use("/api", proxy("http://my.other.host.com/path-to-proxy"));
Make the request
$ curl http://localhost:5000/api
<h1>Welcome to my.other.host.com/path-to-proxy</h1>
You can also specify some options as a second parameter
// snip
app.use("/api", proxy("http://my.other.host.com/path-to-proxy", {
// Disable sending cookies; on by deafult
cookies: false,
// Add x-forwarded-* headers to proxy request
xforward: true,
// Change the timeout length of the proxy (defaults to 10 seconds)
timeout: 20000
}));
// snip
FAQs
Simple proxy middleware
The npm package simple-http-proxy receives a total of 103 weekly downloads. As such, simple-http-proxy popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that simple-http-proxy demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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