It is easier to think about them if you realize they aren’t mutually exclusive. Think of an API gateway as a specific type reverse proxy implementation. In regards to your questions, it is not uncommon to see both used in conjunction where the API gateway is treated as an application tier that sits behind a … Read more
Probably can add a few more line to increase the timeout period to upstream. The examples below sets the timeout to 300 seconds : proxy_connect_timeout 300; proxy_send_timeout 300; proxy_read_timeout 300; send_timeout 300;
request has been deprecated as of February 2020, I’ll leave the answer below for historical reasons, but please consider moving to an alternative listed in this issue. Archive I did something similar but I used request instead: var request = require(‘request’); app.get(“https://stackoverflow.com/”, function(req,res) { //modify the url in any way you want var newurl=”http://google.com/”; request(newurl).pipe(res); … Read more
The previous answers were accurate, but perhaps too terse. I will try to add some examples. First of all, the word “proxy” describes someone or something acting on behalf of someone else. In the computer realm, we are talking about one server acting on the behalf of another computer. For the purposes of accessibility, I … Read more