Pieuvre: a distributed HTTP proxy

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Pieuvre is made of two parts:

• a server, which acts as a HTTP proxy, and receives connections from workers;
• workers, which connect to the server, and issue HTTP requests on behalf of the clients.

Usage

Start the server:

node server.js

Start at least one worker:

node worker.js

Configure your browser to use localhost:8081 as a proxy.

You can also go to http://localhost:8080/ to see an admin interface (well, for now, don't expect too much: it just displays the list of workers).

Deploy on dotCloud

Like this:

git clone git://github.com/jpetazzo/pieuvre.git
git push pieuvre pieuvre
dotcloud info pieuvre.pieuvre

Your HTTP proxy is ready at the host:port shown in the "proxy" section.

The "admin" interface is available at the URL shown at the end of the push.

Bugs

Lots:

• worker does not quit properly
• server does not mark worker as ready once the request proecessing is complete
• worker should be able to handle multiple connections simultaneously
• client should be able to specify X-Pieuvre-Pool HTTP header to request a specific a worker from a specific pool
• server sometimes claims that no worker is available, but that's a lie