Question

I want to do some vhost-jiggery-pokery with node-proxy. Consider that I have a slave script up and running, which listens on a unix-socket: /tmp/node-http/cubixcraft.de
When I want to load it into my node-proxy with the following script it simply doesn’t work. The webpage doesn’t respond.

var fs = require("fs"),
    httpProxy = require("http-proxy");

var options = {
    hostnameOnly: true,
    router: {
        "cubixcraft.de": "/tmp/node-http/cubixcraft.de"
    }
};

var proxyServer = httpProxy.createServer(options).listen(80);

When I use normal ports instead of socket-paths everything works just fine. I even fired a get request on the socket-path that successfully finished. The path really works. There seems to be something wrong with the node-proxy.

Is anybody experiencing the same problems?

Answer 1

I wanted to do something similar recently, but according to the open github issue here http://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/issues/104 it is not possible yet.