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N. Sola
N. Sola

Reputation: 340

How can i forward a client request in Phoenix framework, acting as a proxy?

I would like to act as a proxy for certain requests in my application. For example: if a user requests the link "http://myapp/proxy" , I would like to forward the request to an external website and retrieve the response to the user. The problem here is that I don't want to do URL redirection, but I would like to forward the client requests, acting on behalf of the user.

How can I do it using Phoenix framework?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2305

Answers (2)

srecnig
srecnig

Reputation: 888

For the sake of completeness, here's what i did:

case HTTPoison.get(url) do
    { :ok, response } -> conn |> put_resp_content_type(response.headers["Content-Type"]) |> send_resp(response.status_code, response.body)
    { :error, _error } -> conn |> put_status(:bad_gateway) |> render(AssetsProxy.ErrorView, "502.html")
  end

still very new to the whole elixir/phoenix party, so i'm sure there's stuff to improve on. e.g. it does not handle redirects correctly.

Upvotes: 5

N. Sola
N. Sola

Reputation: 340

To "return" the data back to the client, the code is the following:

HTTPoison.start
response = HTTPoison.post!(url, body, [])

conn |> halt   |>
html  response.body

Upvotes: 0

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