Proxy server target uses port of proxy instead of target port specified

[mdmc4ll1st3r]

Greetings!

I have created what should be a simple proxy server on my system:

var httpProxy = require('http-proxy');

httpProxy.createProxyServer(
  {
    secure: false,
    target: 'https://www.google.com:443'
  }
).listen(3000);

When attempting to access this proxy server via web browser, I'm noticing in the network traffic that the target port number (443) is being ignored and the target request ends up using the same port number as that used by the proxy server (3000). In other words, the request ends up going to https://www.google.com:3000 instead of https://www.google.com:443.

The version of http-proxy specified in my package.json is ^1.18.1.

I am deploying my application using CLI tool forever.

Is there an obvious configuration that I am missing to get my target port to be respected?

[mdmc4ll1st3r]

Greetings future traveler!

I was able to use a different project (http-proxy-middleware) to get the desired behavior of setting up a proxy server using different ports for the proxy and target. Proxy server code below:

const express = require('express');
const { createProxyMiddleware } = require('http-proxy-middleware');

const app = express();

app.use(
  '/api',
  createProxyMiddleware({
    changeOrigin: true,
    pathRewrite: {'^/api' : ''},
    secure: false,
    target: 'https://www.google.com'
  }),
);

app.listen(3000);

Note that I have included a path-rewrite configuration to this code; this was needed for my eventual use case as the changeOrigin setting currently adds a trailing slash to the target path (so for the example it would target https://www.google.com/ instead of https://www.google.com which may be a problem for certain REST patterns).