- reverse-proxies incoming http.Server requests
- can be used as a CommonJS module in node.js
- uses event buffering to support application latency in proxied requests
- minimal request overhead and latency
- fully-tested
- battled-hardened through production usage @ nodejitsu.com
- written entirely in javascript
- easy to use api
Let's suppose you were running multiple http application servers, but you only wanted to expose one machine to the internet. You could setup node-http-proxy on that one machine and then reverse-proxy the incoming http requests to locally running services which were not exposed to the outside network.
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
npm install http-proxy
var http = require('http'),
httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
httpProxy.createServer(9000, 'localhost').listen(8000);
http.createServer(function (req, res){
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.write('request successfully proxied!' + '\n' + JSON.stringify(req.headers, true, 2));
res.end();
}).listen(9000);
see the demo for further examples.
var http = require('http'),
httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
// create a proxy server with custom application logic
httpProxy.createServer(function (req, res, proxy) {
// Put your custom server logic here
proxy.proxyRequest(9000, 'localhost', req, res);
}).listen(8000);
http.createServer(function (req, res){
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.write('request successfully proxied: ' + req.url +'\n' + JSON.stringify(req.headers, true, 2));
res.end();
}).listen(9000);
var http = require('http'),
httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
// create a regular http server and proxy its handler
http.createServer(function (req, res){
var proxy = new httpProxy.HttpProxy;
proxy.watch(req, res);
// Put your custom server logic here
proxy.proxyRequest(9000, 'localhost', req, res);
}).listen(8001);
http.createServer(function (req, res){
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.write('request successfully proxied: ' + req.url +'\n' + JSON.stringify(req.headers, true, 2));
res.end();
}).listen(9000);
If you have a suggestion for a feature currently not supported, feel free to open a support issue. node-http-proxy is designed to just proxy http requests from one server to another, but we will be soon releasing many other complimentary projects that can be used in conjunction with node-http-proxy.
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