Event: 'connect'#
function (response, socket, head) { }
Emitted each time a server responds to a request with a CONNECT
method. If this event isn't being listened for, clients receiving aCONNECT
method will have their connections closed.
A client server pair that show you how to listen for the 'connect'
event.
const http = require('http');
const net = require('net');
const url = require('url');
// Create an HTTP tunneling proxy
var proxy = http.createServer( (req, res) => {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('okay');
});
proxy.on('connect', (req, cltSocket, head) => {
// connect to an origin server
var srvUrl = url.parse(`http://${req.url}`);
var srvSocket = net.connect(srvUrl.port, srvUrl.hostname, () => {
cltSocket.write('HTTP/1.1 200 Connection Established\r\n' +
'Proxy-agent: Node.js-Proxy\r\n' +
'\r\n');
srvSocket.write(head);
srvSocket.pipe(cltSocket);
cltSocket.pipe(srvSocket);
});
});
// now that proxy is running
proxy.listen(1337, '127.0.0.1', () => {
// make a request to a tunneling proxy
var options = {
port: 1337,
hostname: '127.0.0.1',
method: 'CONNECT',
path: 'www.google.com:80'
};
var req = http.request(options);
req.end();
req.on('connect', (res, socket, head) => {
console.log('got connected!');
// make a request over an HTTP tunnel
socket.write('GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n' +
'Host: www.google.com:80\r\n' +
'Connection: close\r\n' +
'\r\n');
socket.on('data', (chunk) => {
console.log(chunk.toString());
});
socket.on('end', () => {
proxy.close();
});
});
});