I'm not sure why you don't use .pipe().. you don't need to buffer all the request before sending it. The headers should have a content-length so your endpoint will know about it. Just send the data directly to the other end instead of buffering.
-- Diogo Resende On Monday, July 30, 2012 at 22:40 , axs wrote: > Thank you, Mikeal. I use request quite a bit in my projects, and it's great. > However, I won't be using request for this project, because I need to write > this one at the transport layer. Eventually I will be redirecting various > requests to other servers and examining data at the transport layer. I just > need to make this barebones version function and then branch from it. Any > ideas on how to pipe the request into the socket? > > I thought of listening to the 'connection' event on the proxy server, and > piping the socket into the tunnel. But this won't differentiate between http > and https requests without parsing the request header, which I'm not sure how > to do. > > Regards, > Alex > > On Monday, July 30, 2012 5:21:04 PM UTC-4, Mikeal Rogers wrote: > > request does all of this, including SSL tunneling. > > > > req.pipe(request(req.url, {proxy:'https://site.com'})).pipe(resp) > > > > -Mikeal > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > (mailto:nodejs@googlegroups.com) > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en