How to Add Headers to node-http-proxy Response

Question

I need to solve CORS on a third party service, so I want to build a proxy to add the header "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *".

Why is this code is not adding the header?

httpProxy = require('http-proxy');

var URL = 'https://third_party_server...';

httpProxy.createServer({ secure: false, target: URL }, function (req, res, proxy) {

  res.oldWriteHead = res.writeHead;
  res.writeHead = function(statusCode, headers) {
    /* add logic to change headers here */

    res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
    res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'POST, GET, OPTIONS');

    res.oldWriteHead(statusCode, headers);
  }

  proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, { secure: false, target: URL });

}).listen(8000);

Answer 1

For those coming across this in the future, here's an updated answer. Combining Michael Gummelt's comment and Nicholas Mitrousis' answer, any headers set on res will be overridden if the response from upstream in proxyRes has the same header set. So to answer the original question:

proxy.on('proxyRes', function(proxyRes, req, res) {
 proxyRes.headers["access-control-allow-origin"] = "*";
 proxyRes.headers["Access-Control-Allow-Methods"] = "POST, GET, OPTIONS";
}