Node.js http.get

javascript node.js proxy

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Solution 1

Simplest solution is to add <base href="http://google.com/"> to the html. Preferably in the head, so do string replace on '<head>' and replace in with '<head><base href="http://google.com/">'

Solution 2

Wouldn't it be easier to have the client fetch the Google page?

<html>
<head>
<script>
window.onload = function () {
  var nif = document.createElement("iframe");
  nif.width = 850;
  nif.height = 500;
  nif.src = "http://www.google.de";
  nif.appendChild( document.createTextNode("no iframe support") );
  document.body.appendChild(nif);
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>IFRAME</h1>
</body>
</html>

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Hacknightly

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Updated on June 20, 2022

Comments

Hacknightly almost 2 years

I have the following code that requests the Google.com homepage and sends the page data back to an Iframe on the client side.

 var options = {
    host: 'www.google.com',
    port: 80,
    path: '/',
    method: 'GET'
  };

  var req = http.get(options, function(res) {
    var pageData = "";
    res.setEncoding('utf8');
    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
      pageData += chunk;
    });

    res.on('end', function(){
      response.send(pageData)
    });
  });

However, all images and CSS are broken in the iframe? How can I preserve the images and CSS?

Gerben over 12 years

PS. you probably also have to strip the JS, because AJAX won't work cross origin.
Hacknightly over 12 years

Hm, I've never seen that before.... Sounds reasonable, I'm going to give it a shot, thank you ; )
Hacknightly over 12 years

Dude, you saved me another week of wanting to bang my head against my monitor. Thank you, a thousand times thank you.
Hacknightly over 12 years

Ahh, sorry, I failed to mention that I'm on the server side making the request via Node js.
Gerben over 12 years

You're a thousand times welcome. I think your monitor will be pleased :-)
Lumi over 12 years

Sure, I noticed; I just didn't understand why when it is easier on the client side. Well, there may be a reason ... just couldn't figure out what it could be.
Hacknightly over 12 years

Actually, I now see how your solution is viable. I'm going to give this a shot also.
Lumi over 12 years

Good. :) And of course you can hardcode the IFRAME, making it even easier - if that's allowed by the problem's constraints.