http-proxy VS proxy-chain

Compare http-proxy vs proxy-chain and see what are their differences.

http-proxy

A full-featured http proxy for node.js (by http-party)

proxy-chain

Node.js implementation of a proxy server (think Squid) with support for SSL, authentication and upstream proxy chaining. (by apifytech)
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http-proxy proxy-chain
14 2
13,736 784
0.4% 2.3%
0.0 4.1
6 days ago 4 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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http-proxy

Posts with mentions or reviews of http-proxy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-08.

proxy-chain

Posts with mentions or reviews of proxy-chain. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing http-proxy and proxy-chain you can also consider the following projects:

axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

pyppeteer - Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)

node-fetch - A light-weight module that brings the Fetch API to Node.js

proxy-login-automator - A single node.js script to automatically inject user/password to http proxy server via a local forwarder

ky-universal - Use Ky in both Node.js and browsers

playwright-go - Playwright for Go a browser automation library to control Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

gh-got - Convenience wrapper for Got to interact with the GitHub API

Nightmare - A high-level browser automation library.

Nock - HTTP server mocking and expectations library for Node.js

taiko - A node.js library for testing modern web applications

got - 🌐 Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js

global-agent - Global HTTP/HTTPS proxy agent configurable using environment variables.