No response using express proxy route

Question

I\'ve written a small proxy with nodejs, express and htt-proxy. It works well for serving local files but fails when it comes to proxy to external api:

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Answer 1

Maybe your code is different when you're testing, but I'm querying the same URL as in your code sample using the following:

http://query.yahooapis.com:8080/v1/public/yql?q=show%20tables&format=json&callback=

and I get nothing back. My guess is you want to change port to 80 (from 8080) -- it works when I change it like so:

http://query.yahooapis.com:80/v1/public/yql?q=show%20tables&format=json&callback=

So that means it should be:

proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, {
    host: 'query.yahooapis.com', //yahoo is just an example to verify its not the apis fault
    port: 80
});