Demos

Hopefully, these demonstrations will help you get your feet off the ground with this API.

Testing WebSockets

If you run websocket_demo.go in one command-line window, you will notice that you can connect to "http://localhost:1337/" and see how many people are actively viewing that page. You can use this to test that WebSockets forward correctly by running general_proxy.go in another command-line window:

go run general_proxy.go 1338 "/" http localhost:1337 "/"

Now the URL "http://localhost:1338/" should be equivalent to "http://localhost:1337/".

NOTE: websocket_demo.go needs Gorilla's websocket API to run correctly. You can download it with the following command:

go get github.com/gorilla/websocket

Proxying Apple's website!

My first test was to proxy "http://apple.com" to "http://localhost:1337"—it actually works surprisingly well.

You can run proxy_apple.go to do this, or run general_proxy.go:

go run general_proxy.go 1337 "/" http apple.com "/"