locap

Locap stands for Local proxy. It is intended to help development of tools that use an HTTP API but don't provide cross-origin header.

The actual project is very small an covers nearly all the basic HTTP API queries but if you need more functionalities, feel free to create an issue.

Installation

$> go get -u -v github.com/tuxlinuxien/locap

Usage

    NAME:
       locap - locap

    USAGE:
       locap [options]

    AUTHOR:
       Yoann Cerda <tuxlinuxien@gmail.com>

    COMMANDS:
         help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

    GLOBAL OPTIONS:
       --port value, -p value         (default: 1314)
       --destination value, -d value  
       --help, -h                     show help

Use case example

Let's assume that we have a RESTful API on api.domain.com that doesn't allow cross-origin for security reasons but you need to work with it on your front-end project using AJAX. Since out front-end project will probably use a local IP, then any HTTP request sent to api.domain.com will be rejected.

Locap will be used as a proxy to forward your queries from your local domain to api.domain.com.

By running this command:

$> locap --port 1314 --destination 'http://api.domain.com'
[...]

you will be able to request http(s)://api.domain.com from http://localhost:1314

If your production API provides a route that can list all the users via GET /users, just change http://api.domain.com/users by http://localhost:1314/users then locap will just forward the body and headers of your request to the destination and send you back the result.