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Application Layer Protocol

I am developing an Application Layer Protocol for which I need every HTTP request or response to route through a separate process running on localhost. As soon as someone enters a http url in a browser, the request should first pass to that process and then the process sends it to the required access point. Is it possible to build something like that?

Solution

  • It sounds like what you're looking for is a Transparent Proxy

    It might be worth making your own HTTP request function that routes everything through the proxy without your code needing to know

    Something like

    function makeGetRequest(url){
    $.post('http://localhost:PROXYPORT/get', { body: url }) 
}