Simple node.js proxy by piping http server to http request

Question

Trying to learn more about node.js by making a simple http proxy server. The use scenario is simple: user -> proxy -> server -> proxy -> user

The following code work

Answer 1

OK. Got it.

UPDATE: NB! As reported in the comments, this example doesn't work anymore. Most probably due to the Streams2 API change (node 0.9+)

Piping back to the client has to happen inside connector's callback as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env node

var
    url = require('url'),
    http = require('http'),
    acceptor = http.createServer().listen(3128);

acceptor.on('request', function(request, response) {
    console.log('request ' + request.url);
    request.pause();
    var options = url.parse(request.url);
    options.headers = request.headers;
    options.method = request.method;
    options.agent = false;

    var connector = http.request(options, function(serverResponse) {
            serverResponse.pause();
            response.writeHeader(serverResponse.statusCode, serverResponse.headers);
            serverResponse.pipe(response);
            serverResponse.resume();
    });
    request.pipe(connector);
    request.resume();
});