How an HTTP Proxy works and How to Build one? (Node JS)

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• Jump to 5:15 for the code on how to build a proxy

• Zeus Proxy has proven particularly useful for web scraping, crawling, and bulk account registration tasks.

• can a HTTP proxy provider read my files when i upload them to a website use HTTPs like Onedrive ? help me please !!!!

• Please show how to make it work for HTTPS

• Pls Do it for https: . Http is for kids anyone can do it.

• Is this how a DNS is able to host multiple websites, by encapsulating/adding another IP address? Or am I completely off topic?

• Have a nice 2023! I used to visit a https site but your proxy in firefox doesn't let me visit it any more. Is it a http and not a https?

• great video. What if we want to pass the HTML response to the client through proxy?

• Explained it (with code) so simple that's so genius! Thx so much Sir

• omg that is amazing! I'm use this for keeping track of my cookies!

• I'm not getting my http request hit the proxy. Only localhost:8000 reaches the proxy. I followed the same code you did in a Mac. What could I have missed?

• My localhost connection refused to connect it says on chrome. Please help.

• Does this work for HTTPS?

• Could you maybe do a video on how to write an http reverse proxy in python please?

• can u past the code? Nvm
  -edit also i have a problem when i type in localhost:8080 it says it wont connect
  -edit2 it gives me this error: crbug/1173575, non-JS module files deprecated.

  chromewebdata/(index)꞉7160:22:7374

• great video – made this very clear

• Great work, keep it going. You were borned to teach.
  I have a question: What app do you use to create the diagrams that you use at the beginning of your videos?

• You are really bad explainer

• @Hussein how can we change the request body (content) in the proxy server and then make a post request on behalf of our proxy

• Balloonie ah you made me remember Phineas and ferb

• I am just wondering, is changing your proxy through a code ( batch file ) possible. Like you have a list of proxies and you want to change them through a bat (batch) script would it work?

• you can also just add "proxy": "http://127.0.0.1:3000" to you package.json file… 127.0.0.1 being the associated IP with the request

• Can we use http to mask our data usage

  For example to make all data usage seem to come from YouTube

• Fuck you wasted my time.

• is there an way to make an https proxy?

• Why would, in this example, a server have a need to go thru a proxy for google? Why not just go directly to it? I am not understanding, in this example, why we need a proxy. I know its just an example, but it would help me understand better why we would need a proxy.

• Could you please guide me to create an HTTPS (secure web proxy). or please have a look on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62226824/https-proxy-serversecure-proxy-server-in-nodejs-with-http-proxy-is-not-working and suggest

• so in the same vein, could one be able to point this proxy (localhost:123) to a remote proxy and then to.. example.com?

• why at the end doesnt show the pages you visit in the console, I mean beacause of the console.log comand at the end ? :c

• Thank you Hussien all your videos are great! Was there a video about Reverse Proxy on Apache? Also a LoadBalancer on apache would be great!

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