- uses event buffering to support application latency in proxied requests
- minimal request overhead and latency
- fully-tested
- battled-hardened through production usage @ nodejitsu.com
- written entirely in javascript
- easy to use api
###when to use node-http-proxy
let's suppose you were running multiple http application servers, but you only wanted to expose one machine to the internet. you could setup node-http-proxy on that one machine and then reverse-proxy the incoming http requests to locally running services which were not exposed to the outside network.