Misleading module + docs, key feature lacking

[desmap]

No offense, and maybe I got something wrong but my understanding of a proxy such as nginx is that you can target multiple apps via multiple hostnames/domains, e.g. example1.com and example2.com have both the same A record and a proxy is sending traffic to the right apps and handling diff. ssl certs, etc..

Unsure if this is possible with node-http-proxy.

Everything else which is described in the docs seems to be easily done with plain node and/or standard node-web/http-libs which are used anyway.

[zacanger]

You can do that with this library, I'm using it for an API gateway that allows for host header based routing for backwards compatibility. Minimal example:

const proxies = {}

const host1Proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer({
/* your config here, including certs if need be */
})

proxies.host1 = host1Proxy

const handler = (req, res) => {
  const host = req.headers.host
  if (proxies[host]) {
    proxies[host].web(req, res, {
      /* options here */
    })
    return
  }

  handle404Case(req, res)
}

http.createServer(handler).listen(port)