Simple Node Proxy

Installation

• run npm i with Node JS >=12
• run with npm start or with an alway on service like `pm2``

Function

• each URL request to proxy-url/{URL} will be proxied by the proxy-domain

General Proxy information

If your app hosted on domain1.com wants to request images from somewhere else, the requests will likely be blocked due to CORS policies. Therefore you can host the Simple Node Proxy on the same domain (e.g. a subdomain or just ip:port) and proxy all request for external ressources to the path proxy-url/external-image-source (e.g. proxy.domain1.com/www.external-image-url.com/1.jpg)

HTTPS/SSL

• for HTTPS support please add your cert into the cert folder and adjust the name/pass file in the source code

Creating self-signed certificate for localhost testing

• install mkcert from https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert (e.g. brew install mkcert)
• for firefox support install also brew install nss
• run e.g. mkcert -key-file key.pem -cert-file cert.pem localhost 127.0.0.1 to generate cert and key file
• run mkcert -install to install certificates on local machine
• copy key.pem and cert.pem file into src/cert/