punchthrough

proxy requests across boundries

What?

A module and cli to enable proxying of web requests across boundries. It works by starting an in-process websocket server wherever the module is consumed, and providing a cli that connects to this server from wherever you wish to proxy on-behalf of. The module is then able to ask the cli to execute a request and return the results.

How?

To install

Easy - to get the module, npm install punchthrough. To get the cli, npm install -g punchthrough.

To use

Module

See example or the tests for more examples.

var punchthrough = require('punchthrough');

var pt = punchthrough({
    port: 3001
}).on('connected', function () {
    console.log("connected");

    pt({
        url: "http://bing.com",
        method: "GET"
    }).then(function (res) {
        console.log(res.statusCode, res.body);
    }, function (err) {
        console.error("ERR " + err);
    });
}).on('disconnected', function () {
    console.log("disconnected");
});

Cli

See punchthrough --help for more info

Usage: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\punchthrough\punchthrough.js -r
[remoteAddress]

Options:
  -h, --help    Show help                                              [boolean]
  -r, --remote                                                        [required]

Missing required argument: r

Module API

Create an instance first: var instance = require('punchthrough')({port: 1})

The API is a subset of the request API:

• instance(params) - make a request with the given params, passed through to request()
• instance.get(params) - make a get request with the given params, passed through to request.get()
• instance.post(params) - make a post request with the given params, passed through to request.post()

All the above return a promise.

• instance.close() - if you've constructed yur instance with {port: <number>} then this will shutdown the internally running http server

License

MIT