Django HTTP Proxy

Simple HTTP proxy service as a Django app.

Author: Mjumbe Wawatu Ukweli, Follow me on Twitter.

Installation

Install with

$ pip install django-proxy

Overview

Forward as close to an exact copy of the request as possible along to a given url. Respond with as close to an exact copy of the resulting response as possible.

Includes a view function that can be used directly from a URL spec:

from proxy.views import proxy_view

urlpatterns = patterns(
	...
	url('proxy/(?P<url>.*)', proxy_view),
	...
)

Or from another view function:

from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
from proxy.views import proxy_view

@csrf_exempt
def myview(request, path):
	extra_requests_args = {...}
	remoteurl = 'http://<host_name>/' + path
	return proxy_view(request, remoteurl, extra_requests_args)

urlpatterns = patterns(
	...
	url('proxy/(?P<path>.*)', myview),
	...
)

Changelog

1.2.0

• Bug Fix: Missing imports

1.2.0

• Convert relative URLs in Location headers to absolute.

1.0.2

• Add Content-length to the set of headers not copies from the upstream response.

1.0.1

• Defer to the requests library for setting the Content-Length header

1.0.0

• Initial release, based on the HTTP proxy in OpenPlans' https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts-django-client

License

Copyright © Mjumbe Wawatu Ukweli.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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