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07_05_GuyT
07_05_GuyT

Reputation: 2887

Http proxy error for target

I use the following code and it works 

          proxy.web(req, res, {
                changeOrigin: true,
                target: 'http://' + hostname + ':' + port,
                ws: true
            });

But when I try the following I got error,why?

proxy.web(req, res, {
                target: {
                    host: 'http://' + hostname,
                    port: port
                },

        });

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1103

Answers (2)

dayakar
dayakar

Reputation: 66

Because httpProxy.createProxyServer uses url.parse, which will take string as argument you can see the documentatin here https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/url.html

you can see the proxy server code here https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/blob/master/lib/http-proxy/index.js

refer line number : 64

Upvotes: 4

Lucian
Lucian

Reputation: 644

It's because it only works with string. From https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy#options:

httpProxy.createProxyServer supports the following options:

target: url string to be parsed with the url module

Upvotes: 3

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