From 84087208ddc04a5f8133d1a1348d8db49afc1981 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: briman0094 <briman94@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:08:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Properly write response header optionally including
 statusMessage (#1061)

---
 lib/http-proxy/passes/web-outgoing.js | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/http-proxy/passes/web-outgoing.js b/lib/http-proxy/passes/web-outgoing.js
index b49fbc8..f21d117 100644
--- a/lib/http-proxy/passes/web-outgoing.js
+++ b/lib/http-proxy/passes/web-outgoing.js
@@ -108,9 +108,11 @@ var redirectRegex = /^201|30(1|2|7|8)$/;
    * @api private
    */
   function writeStatusCode(req, res, proxyRes) {
-    res.statusCode = proxyRes.statusCode;
+    // From Node.js docs: response.writeHead(statusCode[, statusMessage][, headers])
     if(proxyRes.statusMessage) {
-      res.statusMessage = proxyRes.statusMessage;
+      res.writeHead(proxyRes.statusCode, proxyRes.statusMessage);
+    } else {
+      res.writeHead(proxyRes.statusCode);
     }
   }