Proxying without redirecting node-http-proxy

Question

I am trying to use node-http-proxy to proxy my site to another site eg google.com whenever I try some of the examples they give in the docs on github instead of my site showing the content of google.com it just redirects to google.com this is the code I am using

var proxy = require("http-proxy");
var options = {
   router: {
      "myserver.com" : "google.com"
   }
}
var proxyServer = proxy.createServer(options);
proxyServer.listen(80);

I am doing this wrong and its just for reverse proxy? If it is what in the node-http-proxy allows me to do regular proxies?

Answer 1

Because google.com returns a 301 redirect, it'll send the browser to a different location. In this case, you can just use the full url (www.google.com), and it will not send back the 301 redirect to www.google.com. The important thing is that, since google.com is sending back a 301 redirect, you have to use the redirected website to not redirect the client. For example, if you run curl google.com, you'll see a 301 redirect, where if you just run curl www.google.com the redirect is not present.