NodeJsRep

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

Time spent: [5 hrs]

Completed:

• [x] Required: Requests to port 8000 are echoed back with the same HTTP headers and body
• [x] Required: Requests/reponses are proxied to/from the destination server
• [x] Required: The destination server is configurable via the --host, --port or --url arguments
• [x] Required: The destination server is configurable via the x-destination-url header
• [x] Required: Client requests and respones are printed to stdout
• [x] Required: The --logfile argument outputs all logs to the file specified instead of stdout

Walkthrough Gif:

Video Walkthrough Starting the Server

babel-node index.js (npm start/ bode not working on windows machine)

Features

Echo Server: (Also working for Localhost)

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 Proxy Server:

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 Configuration:

CLI Arguments:

The following CLI arguments are supported:

--8000

The host of the destination server. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.

--8000 --8001

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

curl http://127.0.0.1:8000

curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000 -d "hello world" -H 'x-asdf: foo'

The follow http header(s) are supported:

x-destination-url