Working request forwarding/piping responses back

index.js

@@ -12,33 +12,39 @@ const logger = winston.createLogger({
     ]
 });
 
-
+/**
-function startServer() {
+ * Connection handler for proxy, forward request and then pipe response
-    // Start the server, set up data and end handlers.
+ * back to the client.
-    var server = http.createServer();
+ * 
-    server.on('request', (request, response) => {
+ * @param {IncomingMessage} request The request from the client
+ * @param {OutgoingMessage} response The response to write back to the client
+ */
+const processRequest = (request, response) => {
     let body = [];
     // Use closure for request.
     let req = request;
     let res = response;
 
+    // Set up a data handler for the socket connection.
     request.on("data", (chunk) => {
         body.push(chunk);
-        }).on("end", () => {
+    })
-            body = Buffer.concat(body).toString();
     
-            console.log(req.path);
+    // Set up an end handler for the socket connection.
+    request.on("end", () => {
+        body = Buffer.concat(body).toString();
         logger.info({message: "Got a message!"});
-            logger.info({message: req});
+        logger.info({message: "Requesting: " + req.url});
-            let connector = http.request(
+
-                req.headers["Host"], {
+        // Complicated line of JS to forward request, and pipe it to the
-                    headers: req.headers,
+        // response object.
-                }, (resp) => {
+        req.pipe(http.request(req.url, (resp) => {resp.pipe(res)}));
-                    resp.pipe(res);
     });
-            req.pipe(connector);
+}
-        })
+
-    })
+function startServer() {
+    // Start the server, set up data and end handlers.
+    var server = http.createServer(processRequest);
 
     // Start the server
     server.listen(8124, () => {