This is a Proxy Server for Node.js submitted as the pre-work requirement for CodePath.

Time spent: 4 hours

Completed:

• [] Required: Requests to port 8000 are echoed back with the same HTTP headers and body
• [] Required: Requests/reponses are proxied to/from the destination server
• [] Required: The destination server is configurable via the --host, --port or --url arguments
• [] Required: The destination server is configurable via the x-destination-url header
• [] Required: Client requests and respones are printed to stdout
• [] Required: The --logfile argument outputs all logs to the file specified instead of stdout
• [] Optional: The --exec argument proxies stdin/stdout to/from the destination program
• [] Optional: The --loglevel argument sets the logging chattiness
• [] Optional: Supports HTTPS
• [] Optional: -h argument prints CLI API

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npm start

curl -v -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000 -d "hello self" -H "x-asdf: yodawg"* Rebuilt URL to: http://127.0.0.1:8000/ * Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache * Trying 127.0.0.1... * Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8000 (#0)> POST / HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.37.1 > Host: 127.0.0.1:8000 > Accept: */*> x-asdf: yodawg > Content-Length: 10 > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded >* upload completely sent off: 10 out of 10 bytes < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < user-agent: curl/7.37.1 < host: 127.0.0.1:8000 < accept: */*< x-asdf: yodawg < content-length: 10 < content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded < Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:45:50 GMT < Connection: keep-alive <* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact hello self

Port 8001 will proxy to the echo server on port 8000.

curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8001/asdf -d "hello proxy"* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache * Trying 127.0.0.1... * Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8001 (#0)> POST /asdf HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.37.1 > Host: 127.0.0.1:8001 > Accept: */*> Content-Length: 11 > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded >* upload completely sent off: 11 out of 11 bytes < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < user-agent: curl/7.37.1 < host: 127.0.0.1:8001 < accept: */*< content-length: 11 < content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded < connection: close < date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 02:03:29 GMT <* Closing connection 0 hello proxy

The following CLI arguments are supported:

The host of the destination server. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.

The port of the destination server. Defaults to 80 or 8000 when a host is not specified.

A single url that overrides the above. E.g., http://www.google.com

Specify a file path to redirect logging to.

The follow http header(s) are supported:

Specify the destination url on a per request basis. Overrides and follows the same format as the --url argument.