Heroku - proxy server not working with browser

[TelmoNeves]

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I have the following code in my heroku app:

var http = require('http'),
httpProxy = require('http-proxy');

var proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer({});

http.createServer(function(req, res) {
  proxy.web(req, res, {target:req.url, prependPath:false})
}).listen(process.env.PORT || 5000);

console.log("Server started on port "+process.env.PORT);

And then I'm trying to use this server along with a browser (e.g. Chrome) using appname.herokuapp.com:80 or using the port returned by console log function but only using the port 80 works yet it only says that the app doesn't exists when it does.

[keithmo]

When running in the Heroku environment, your app is already behind a proxy. The Heroku proxy is bound to appname.herokuapp.com:80, and forwards requests to your app dyno, which is bound to some randomly assigned port.

What exactly are you trying to do? Setting target to req.url seems quite odd.

[TelmoNeves]

What I'm trying to do is to setup a caching proxy server like squid in heroku. Then I want to be able to use that proxy server on any browser like 111.222.333.444:80.

I don't know exactly what I'm doing since I never used nodejs but from what I can see, that piece of code makes a request from the url I'm trying to access, say google.com, and then returns the response to heroku and so to my browser right?

I'm aware that heroku already use a proxy yet I don't know how it works.

[TelmoNeves]

Other people already questioned about this: https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/issues/301

[neekey]

same here : (