From d6a2f8aa7dae3f6721b9607a702c68b1ad7fc692 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marak Squires Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:15:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] added readme --- README.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e69de29..68215a8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# 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 +