How to make external HTTP requests with Node js

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The question is fairly simple  I want to use a Node js server as a proxy to log  authenticate  and forward HTTP queries to a backend HTTP server  PUT  GET  and DELETE requests    What library should I use for that purpose  I m afraid I can t find one

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You can use the built-in http module to do an http request     However if you want to simplify the API you can use a module such as superagent

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node-http-proxy is a great solution as was suggested by  hross above  If you re not deadset on using node  we use NGINX to do the same thing  It works really well with node  We use it for example to process SSL requests before forwarding them to node  It can also handle cacheing and forwarding routes  Yay

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I would combine node-http-proxy and express   node-http-proxy will support a proxy inside your node js web server via RoutingProxy  see the example called Proxy requests within another http server    Inside your custom server logic you can do authentication using express  See the auth sample here for an example   Combining those two examples should give you what you want

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NodeJS supports http request as a standard module  http   nodejs org docs v0 4 11 api http html http request  var http   require  http     var options       host   example com     port  80    path    foo html      http get options  function resp     resp on  data   function chunk         do something with chunk          on  error   function e     console log  Got error      e message

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You can use node js http module to do that  You could check the documentation at Node js HTTP   You would need to pass the query string as well to the other HTTP Server  You should have that in ServerRequest url    Once you have those info  you could pass in the backend HTTP Server and port in the options that you will provide in the http request

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