- uses event buffering to support application latency in proxied requests
- minimal request overhead and latency
- fully-tested
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- written entirely in javascript
- easy to use api
### Todo
- add ability to black list ip addresses
### When to use node-http-proxy
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.
### Installing npm (node package manager)
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
### Installing node-http-proxy
npm install http-proxy
### How to use node-http-proxy
#### proxying requests using http.Server
### How to use node-http-proxy
var sys = require('sys'),
colors = require('colors')
http = require('http');
var httpProxy = require('./lib/node-http-proxy').httpProxy;
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see the [demo](http://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/blob/master/demo.js) for further examples.
### Why doesn't node-http-proxy have more advanced features like x, y, or z?
if you have a suggestion for a feature currently not supported, feel free to open a [support issue](https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/issues). node-http-proxy is designed to just proxy https request 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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if you have a suggestion for a feature currently not supported, feel free to open a [support issue](http://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/issues). node-http-proxy is designed to just proxy http request 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
### Todo
- add ability to black list ip addresses
### License
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2010 Charlie Robbins & Marak Squires
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