fork-proxy

Proxy a single incomming TCP connection to multiple remote TCP servers. Only the response from one target will be proxied back to the client.

Can be used both from the command line and programmatically.

Command Line Usage

fork-proxy port [forward_host:]forward_port...

The fork-proxy command takes the following arguments:

• port - The port that it should listen on
• forwards - a list of host:port combinations to forward TCP traffic to. If host: is omitted, localhost is assumed

The responses from the first forward target will be piped back to the client. Responses from the remaining forward targets will be ignored.

Example:

$ fork-proxy 3000 example.com:80 example.org:80

Programmatic Usage

var multi = require('fork-proxy')

// proxy TCP traffic to both example.com and example.org
var proxy = multi([
  { host: 'example.com', port: 80 },
  { host: 'example.org', port: 80 }
])

// listen for incoming TCP traffic on port 3000
proxy.listen(3000)

API

var proxy = multi(targets)

The module exposes a single constructor function multi, which takes an array of target TCP servers as the first argument. The array must have at least one element.

Each element in the array must be an object. The object is passed into net.connect() and as such is expected to follow the same API.

The constructor function returns the proxy server which is an instance of net.Server.

Only the response from the first target will be proxied back to the client. Responses from the remaining targets will be ignored.

Each connection object emitted on the connection event will have a property named targets. It's an array containing the sockets created to connect to the different target servers:

var proxy = multi([{ port: 3001 }, { port: 3002 }])

proxy.on('connection', function (c) {
  console.log('connecting client to %d servers', c.targets.length)
})

proxy.listen(3000)

License

MIT