From 07c8d2ee6017264c3d4deac9f42ca264a3740b48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tj Holowaychuk <tj@vision-media.ca>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 08:44:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed large DoS vector in the middleware implementation

---
 lib/node-http-proxy.js | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/node-http-proxy.js b/lib/node-http-proxy.js
index bb4447b..55a4a35 100644
--- a/lib/node-http-proxy.js
+++ b/lib/node-http-proxy.js
@@ -125,11 +125,15 @@ exports.stack = function stack (middlewares, proxy) {
     handle = function (req, res) {
       var next = function (err) {
         if (err) {
-          throw err;
-          //
-          // TODO: figure out where to send errors.
-          // return error(req, res, err);
-          //
+          console.error(err.stack);
+          if (res._headerSent) {
+            res.destroy();
+          } else {
+            res.statusCode = 500;
+            res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
+            res.end('Internal Server Error');
+          }
+          return;
         }
         child(req, res);
       }