Get response from proxy server

Question

I created a proxy server in node.js using the node-http-proxy module.

Looks like this:

var http = require('http'),
httpProxy = require('http-proxy'),
io = require("socket.io").listen(5555);

var proxy = new httpProxy.RoutingProxy();

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
     proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, {
         host: 'localhost',
         port: 1338
     });
}).listen(9000);

So, I need, before sending the response back to the client to get the body from the server that I proxy and analyze it.

But I can't find event or attribute, where I can get this data. I tried:

proxy.on('end', function (data) {
    console.log('end');
});

But I can't figure our how to get the mime body from it.

Answer 1

If all you want to do is examine the response (read-only) , you could use :

proxy.on('proxyRes', function(proxyRes, req, res){

    proxyRes.on('data' , function(dataBuffer){
        var data = dataBuffer.toString('utf8');
        console.log("This is the data from target server : "+ data);
    }); 

});

But , note that the 'proxyRes' event is emitted after the response is sent.

Reference in : https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/issues/382