danpoland / drf-reverse-proxy

Django REST Framework reverse proxy view

drf-reverse-proxy

Overview

This is a Django REST Framework port of the excellent django-revproxy (https://github.com/TracyWebTech/django-revproxy) library.

This port allows you to reverse proxy HTTP requests while still utilizing DRF features such as authentication, permissions and throttling.

This library works exactly like the django-revproxy library, the documentation for django-revproxy can be found at: http://django-revproxy.readthedocs.org/

Features

• Proxies all HTTP methods: HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, TRACE, CONNECT and PATCH
• Copy all http headers sent from the client to the proxied server
• Copy all http headers sent from the proxied server to the client (except hop-by-hop <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13.5.1>_)
• Basic URL rewrite
• Handles redirects
• Few external dependencies
• Maintains the usability of DRF features like authentication, permissions and throttling.

Requirements

• Python (2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5)
• Django (1.8, 1.9, 1.10)
• Django REST Framework (3.3, 3.4, 3.5)

Installation

Install using pip\ …

$ pip install drf-reverse-proxy

Example

Create a custom reverse proxy view:

from drfreverseproxy import ProxyView

class TestProxyView(ProxyView):
   upstream = 'http://example.com'

Or just use the default:

from drfreverseproxy import ProxyView

urlpatterns = [
   url(r'^(?P<path>.*)$', ProxyView.as_view(upstream='http://example.com/')),
]

drf-reverse-proxy's Issues

AttributeError: 'HttpResponse' object has no attribute '_headers'

This is essentially a duplicate of: jazzband/django-revproxy#126

The fix exists at: jazzband/django-revproxy#128

Fails when Upstream

Fix outdated urllib3 dependency

drf-reverse-proxy is currently suffering from the same issue that is already documented in django-revproxy issue #75 as well as requests issue #4010.
As I'm lacking resources currently to dive deeper into the code but would like to use drf-reverse-proxy without being stuck with urllib 1.16, I propose to adapt the solution outlined in the above mentioned requests issue and just add request_context as an additional parameter to the _new_pool method signature (without doing any further processing on it). This solution was also adapted by the django-revproxy contributors.
I'll send a PR for this shortly.

Make latest code available in pypi for pip install

Pls make the latest code from master branch available as a package in pypi

Fix README.md example

Fix import path for ProxyView in README.md