steve.proxy.server

Server content from as localhost web server with proxy settings.

to run

run from the same wsl distro which contains web pages being served.

run using node

node ./src/index.js

configuration web page

http://localhost:9000/sps-config/index.html

run in debug mode

wsl-restart lae0901 cd /clients/lae0901/xampp-php/node/steve-proxy-server code . F5 to run in debug mode. Select "run proxy-server"

deploy new version

publish new version of package

• in package.json, increment the version number.
• npm publish
• see publish topic in notes web npm.txt document for more info.

npm commands to display installed package

• npm view steve-proxy-server
• npm list -g steve-proxy-server

update install on systems where the package is used

• sudo npm install -g steve-proxy-server

key features

The ./src/index.js file contains #!/usr/bin/env node on the first line. This enables node to run the index.js file from the terminal command line.

The bin property in package.json enables the globally installed package to be run from the terminal command line by specifying the package name.

modifications

switch http server to async and await capable.

2023-01-09 Start using decodeURI correctly. Use to replace %20 in URI with a space. Needed when staticly serving files.

Add proxyJS setting. When this flag is on requests for .js files are proxied up to the internet server and not served from local folder.

todo

2022-10-28 check for existance of php file before use axios.post

decode url GET /coder/img/sql%20favicon.ico

highlighted code

gather request body in function that returns a promise

// ------------------------------- gatherRequestBody -------------------------------
function gatherRequestBody( req )
{
  const promise = new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
  {
    let body_data = '';
    req.on('data', chunk =>
    {
      body_data += chunk;
    });
    req.on('end', () =>
    {
      resolve( body_data );
    });  
  });
  return promise;
}

async version of http.createServer

http.createServer( async function (req, res)
{
  console.log(`${req.method} ${req.url}`);

  let body_data = await gatherRequestBody(req) ;

}).listen( port, ipAddr) ;