Set up a plumber2 api to act as a reverse proxy

You can set up your plumber2 api to act as reverse proxy and forward all requests to a specific path (and it's subpaths) to a different URL. In contrast to api_shiny(), api_forward() is not responsible for launching whatever service is being proxied so this should be handled elsewhere. The path will be stripped from the request before being forwarded to the url, meaning that if you set up a proxy on my/proxy/ to http://example.com, then a request for my/proxy/user/thomas will end at http://example.com/user/thomas. Proxying is most useful when forwarding to internal servers though you are free to forward to public URLs as well. However, for the later you'd usually use a redirect instead (via api_redirect())

Usage

api_forward(api, path, url)

Arguments

api: A plumber2 api to add the shiny app to
path: The path to serve the shiny app from
url: The url to forward to

Value

This functions return the api object allowing for easy chaining with the pipe

Using annotation

You can set up a reverse proxy in your annotated route file using the @forward tag

#* @forward /proxy http://127.0.0.1:56789
NULL

Examples

# Serve wikipedia directly from your app
api() |>
  api_forward("my_wiki/", "https://www.wikipedia.org")
#> ── A plumber server ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8080
#> Currently not running