[doc] Added sample for custom error messages using the proxyError event

indexzero · indexzero · commit 4cdbf0e8729a · 2011-06-15T09:39:35.000-04:00
diff --git a/examples/custom-proxy-error.js b/examples/custom-proxy-error.js
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+/*
+  custom-proxy-error.js: Example of using the custom `proxyError` event.
+
+  Copyright (c) 2010 Charlie Robbins, Mikeal Rogers, Fedor Indutny, & Marak Squires.
+
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+
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+
+*/
+
+var util = require('util'),
+    colors = require('colors'),
+    http = require('http'),
+    httpProxy = require('./../lib/node-http-proxy');
+
+//
+// Http Proxy Server with Latency
+//
+var server = httpProxy.createServer(function (req, res, proxy) {
+  proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, {
+    port: 9000,
+    host: 'localhost'
+  });
+})
+
+//
+// Tell the server to listen on port 8002
+//
+server.listen(8002);
+
+//
+// Listen for the `proxyError` event on `server.proxy`. _It will not
+// be raised on the server itself._
+server.proxy.on('proxyError', function (err, req, res) {
+  res.writeHead(500, {
+    'Content-Type': 'text/plain'
+  });
+  
+  res.end('Something went wrong. And we are reporting a custom error message.');
+});
+
+
+util.puts('http proxy server '.blue + 'started '.green.bold + 'on port '.blue + '8002 '.yellow + 'with custom error message'.magenta.underline);
