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# node-http-proxy - v0.1.0
## battle-hardened node.js http reverse proxy
###features
- reverse-proxies incoming http.Server requests
- can handled malformed http requests
- uses event buffering to support application latency in proxied requests
- minimal request overhead and latency
- fully-tested
- battled-hardened through production usage @ nodejitsu.com
###when to use node-http-proxy
let's suppose you were running multiple http application servers, but you only wanted to expose one machine to the internet. you could setup node-http-proxy on that one machine and then reverse-proxy the incoming http requests to locally running services which were not exposed to the outside network.
### how to use node-http-proxy