ConnectProxyLayer

Connect proxy layer is a piece of connect middleware that allows you to send requests on to another end server. Additionally, you can define functions for the proxy to use to modify the request in-flight. If you do not specify interceptors the proxy will simply pipe data from the input, and proxy the response.

Usage

Using connect-proxy-layer is as simple as:

var cpl = require('connect-proxy-layer'), connect = require('connect');
 
var app = connect();
 
app.use("/api", cpl("http://api.example.com/"));
 
app.listen(80);

Using Interceptors

Header

The header interceptor allows you to determine whether the requests needs additional transformation based upon information available in the headers and URL of the request.

function header(localRequest, next, proxy, pump)

• localRequest - The http.incomingRequest that the server recieved. Use this to read headers and URL information.
• next - The connect "next" object, used to skip this route and continue the connect chain.
• proxy - A function that takes no arguments, telling the server to "proxy" the request to allow for request modifications.
• pump - A function that takes no arguments, telling the server to pump the request directly into the remote connection.

Input

The input interceptor is what is called to transform "Proxied" requests to the server.

function input(localRequest, requestBody, localResponse, next, proxy)

• localRequest - The http.incomingRequest that the server recieved. Use this to read headers and URL information.
• requestBody - The string that was sent to the proxy server.
• localResponse - The http.outgoingMessage that is to be sent to the client.
• next - The connect "next" object, used to skip this route and continue the connect chain.
• proxy - A function that will execute the request to the server, this must be called like.

proxy(localRequest, requestBody, localResponse, nxt);

Output

The output interceptor is called to modify response data from the server before it is sent to the client.

function output(remoteResponse, responseBody, localResponse, next, send)

• remoteResponse - The http.incomingMessage from the remote server.
• responseBody - The response string sent by the remote server.
• localResponse - The http.outgoingMessage that is to be sent to the client.
• next - The connect "next" object, used to skip this route and continue the connect chain.
• send - A function that will send the response to the client, and must be called like

send(localResponse, remoteResponse, responseBody);

NB

To use the "input" interceptor you must define a header interceptor and call proxy(), because the default behavior is to pump the request.

License

This software is provided under a BSD 2-Clause license.