The goal is to write a web service that acts as an HTTP proxy in the language of your choice. You can use google, StackOverflow, etc. and any external libraries you wish, unless it's a library that does exactly this.
The only method that needs to be implemented is / proxy/<url>
It should listen for both GET and POST
On a GET request, it should make a get request to <url>
On a POST request, it should make a post request to <url>, passing through any form data
It should set the user-agent header to the same user-agent that it is being called by (note curl/7.35.0 in the examples)
Assuming the web service is running on localhost:8000, here are some examples of how it can be used:
$ curl http://localhost:8000/ proxy/http://httpbin.org/get
{
"args": {},
"headers": {
"Accept": "*/*",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "curl/7.35.0"
},
"origin": "99.250.201.200",
"url": "http://httpbin.org/get"
}
$ curl -X POST -d asdf=blah http://localhost:8000/ proxy/http://httpbin.org/post
{
"args": {},
"data": "",
"files": {},
"form": {
"asdf": "blah"
},
"headers": {
"Accept": "*/*",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
"Content-Length": "9",
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "curl/7.35.0"
},
"json": null,
"origin": "99.250.201.200",
"url": "http://httpbin.org/post"
}
No time pressure, just upload the code to github whenever you have time to complete and send me a link.
Let me know if there's anything that isn't clear or if you have any questions.
