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Mon, 06 Feb 2012

Reverse proxy with Zappa
Zappa is a Node.js / Express.js web server and framework based on the ideas of Sinatra.

One of the many uses I have had for Zappa includes mixing dynamic content and reverse proxying other Zappa processes and CouchDB. The main tool here is the request module and a recent (0.6+) version of Node.js.

Here a short example (in CoffeeScript):

require('zappajs').run, ->

  request = require 'request'

  make_proxy = (proxy_base) ->
    return ->
      proxy = request
        uri: proxy_base + @request.url
        method: @request.method
        headers: @request.headers
        jar: false
        followRedirect: false
        timeout: 1000
      @request.pipe proxy
      proxy.pipe @response
      return

  couchdb_proxy = make_proxy 'http://127.0.0.1:5984'
  couchdb_urls = /^\/(_session|_users|_uuids|_utils|provisioning|billing|cdr|u.*)($|\/)/
  @get  couchdb_urls, couchdb_proxy
  @post couchdb_urls, couchdb_proxy
  @put  couchdb_urls, couchdb_proxy
  @del  couchdb_urls, couchdb_proxy

The make_proxy function is a generic reverse proxy for Zappa, and since there isn't really anything specific to Zappa here, can probably be used in Express.js as well. posted: 2012-02-06 10:14 edit: 2013-04-04: should not follow redirects. tags: zappa

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