Ignore path and the trailing slash

Created by: mereghost

As I need to rewrite the request URL as it does not map perfectly to the applications under the proxy, I've set ignorePath to true.

Then I proceeded to define the target as a full doctored url (a valid URL for my applications), but as in common.js:82 it does not truly ignore the path. It sets it to '/' and them proceeds to append it to target / forward.

Is there any way around that? Is there a better way to do what I need?

Created by: mereghost

Hmmm... the only current way (that I found) to bypass this behavior is rewriting the proxied request path using the callback 'proxyReq'

proxy.on('proxyReq', function (proxyReq, req, res, options) {
    proxyReq.path = path;
});

Created by: bdefore

thanks @mereghost i was looking for just this. to prepend, you can do i.e. proxyReq.path = '/api/' + proxyReq.path. certainly would be nicer if ignorePath was better documented.

Created by: cdl

Thanks @mereghost - just ran into this issue myself, but it didn't surface until dealing with proxying requests with query parameters. Glad to see I'm not going insane.

Created by: RickWong

Created by: darrenmce

/ appended to end of querystring when using ignorePath

Created by: 75lb

i need to rewrite the target path too for the exact same reason (the target URL structure does not match the source URL structure).

this appended trailing slash breaks the ability to rewrite the target path as a specific resource.. could we remove it and update the docs for ignorePath stating that, if required, we must manually append our own target trailing slash?

Created by: niclic

Should be resolved by this: https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/pull/934

Created by: jcrugzz

@niclic should be, thanks :)