req object is a stream, you probably want to buffer it first.

see:
https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/blob/master/examples/http/latent-proxy.js



On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Felipe Coury <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to route requests based on a result I get from redis, but I am
> failing miserably.
>
> Consider this pseudo code snippet below:
>
> var proxy = new httpProxy.RoutingProxy();
> http.createServer(function (req, res) {
>   console.log("URL", req.url);
>   if (req.url) {
>     var token = req.url.split("/")[1];
>
>     // if I leave this code here it works fine
>     // var target = { host: 'local-01', port: 8024 }
>     // proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, target);
>
>     // now I need to retrieve some routing information
>     // from redis, so I query redis here
>     redisClient.get(token, function (err, reply) {
>       // if I leave this code here the request hangs
>       var target = { host: 'local-01', port: 8024 }
>       proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, target);
>     });
>   }
> }).listen(routerInfo.port, routerInfo.address);
>
> If I call proxy.proxyRequest before querying Redis, it works fine.
> However, if I move the code inside Redis callbacks, it fails and the HTTP
> request just hangs.
>
> Any idea what's going on here and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Felipe.
>
>
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