Proxy Server

This project is a simple Node.js proxy server built with Express. It forwards requests to a target HTTPS endpoint with Basic Authentication, while handling CORS, JSON parsing, and SSL bypassing.

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🚀 Features

• 🌍 CORS enabled — Accepts requests from any origin.

• 🔑 Basic Authentication — Forwards requests with encoded credentials.

• 🔄 Request forwarding — Supports all HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.).

• 🛡 SSL bypass — Useful for self-signed certificates (can be disabled for production).

• ⚡ Timeout handling — Requests automatically timeout after 15 seconds.

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📂 Project Structure

. ├── server.js # Main server file ├── package.json └── README.md

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🛠 Installation

# Clone the repository and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/RaoulBock/api-proxy.git
cd proxy-server
npm install

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▶ Usage

# Start the server:

npm run start

The proxy will run at:

http://localhost:3000

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⚙ Configuration

# Inside server.js, update the following values:

const endPointLink = "https://example.com"; // Target server
const port = 7108;                          // Target port

const username = "username";                // Basic Auth username
const password = "password";                // Basic Auth password

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⚠ Security Notes

The current setup bypasses SSL certificate validation for HTTPS (rejectUnauthorized: false).

✅ Useful for testing with self-signed certificates.

❌ Not recommended for production — remove or set to true.

Store credentials (username, password) in environment variables instead of hardcoding.

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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