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node-http-proxy

A full-featured http proxy for node.js

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15Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
14.1KGitHub stars
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A full-featured http proxy for node.js

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year15 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-09-12 22:25:04 UTC to 2022-03-29 19:45:39 UTC.

02462010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022

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20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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In Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile
You're on to me. ;) There is node-http-proxy available (https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy), which also has some plugins available to do some of the advanced features nginx supports. I'll likely be writing a custom proxy server tailored to our needs such that it probably won't be useful as a general purpose proxy server, but if you're looking for something, that's a start. Making it more general purpose unfortunately would require more work, and I'm pretty time stretched right now. I'm not saying it's better than nginx, of course. I'm just saying that if you need to do some crazy programming that can't be done with nginx, you're free to use something else. Don't be fearful of treading your own path, just make sure you know well how HTTP works before doing it. Here's a stupid example I whipped up quickly for a reverse proxy for o
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ur IPFS nodes that demonstrates how quickly you can put together a custom reverse proxy to do something weird: https://github.com/neocities/hshca-proxy/blob/master/app.js. That flaming piece of junk hasn't crashed once since I deployed it.
In Launching NginScript
Hipache is built on top of node-http-proxy [1], a nodejs library which implements a lot of the actual websocket logic. Most of the tests you have in mind are in that library. Hipache implements a management and automation layer on top of it, and although more tests are always good, in my experience full-stack integration tests are more important in that context. I am not the author, but I work at dotCloud and can tell you that Hipache was submitted to massive amounts of integration testing and load testing before even touching its first production deployment. Obviously there's a long way to go before being as battle-tested as squid or nginx, but we're not talking about a week-end hack project either. [1] http://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy
In DotCloud open-sources its websocket proxy
tonyarkles·Oct 4, 2011Submission

Ask HN: Something weird with accessing through a node.js proxy?

I'm experimenting with the nodejitsu node-http-proxy (https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy), and my super simple proxy seems to be working well. I've just tried surfing around to a bunch of sites I normally visit, and they've loaded fine. Unfortunately, when I try to load HN with the proxy running, I just get a blank screen that says "Unknown." Does anyone know anything about that? Experienced it before?
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