Sounds a lot like SubStack's "bouncy": https://github.com/substack/bouncy

Very cool nonetheless!

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Dominic Tarr <[email protected]>wrote:

> so,
>
> For a while I've been wondering, could I make a *really* simple proxy?
>
> Although in http 1.1 multiple requests may be made in the same tcp
> connection, a well behaved client is not allowed
> to make requests to different hosts in the same connection, so this
> begs the question: is it necessary to properly parse http?
> as long as you can parse the first header, and then connect the tcp
> stream to the right place... then every thing should just work,
> including WebSockets.
>
> It was marak who originally suggested this idea to me.
>
> so, today I actually tried it... and it looks like: IT WORKED!!!
>
> https://github.com/dominictarr/badass
>
> npm install badass
>
> I've implemented just enough to make a load-balancer with sticky
> sessions. basically it just matches the text before the first empty
> line. pulls out the headers with a few regexps, and then just sends
> the rest through as buffers. it also extracts the first header on the
> response, so you can force a cookie to get sticky sessions.
>
> it's only about 100 lines, and it does next to nothing to the tcp
> stream, so it should be really fast.
>
> but I havn't benchmarked it yet.
>
> also, I havn't written a detailed test suite that cover all the error
> paths.
> (connections unexpectedly closing etc)
>
> There are some things that will never do, like, deliver it's own error
> messages.
> But thats okay. I'm trying to be ruthlessly simple.
> If you want a fully featured proxy, use something else.
>
> cheers, Dominic
>
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