For local development on Windows, I'm serving an HTTPS back-end with client certificate authentication on Apache Tomcat at https://localhost:8443/api, and an HTTP front-end at http://localhost:3000/ on Node (Koa).
How can I connect these two for local development?
I've tried using koa-proxy and http-proxy to proxy the HTTPS API and request client certificates, but this hasn't worked. Now I'm considering if there's a way to proxy the HTTPS front-end to https://localhost:8443/.
All front end requests are dealt with by node. U need a node module to pass all requests with /imanapirequest in the url to your backend.
The npm module connect-mod-rewrite is your friend. It syntax is similar to Apache syntax.
Your JavaScript when making a request should look like http.get('/imanapirequest/path') ... This request will then be rewritten by the rewrite module and handled by Apache. Job done.
Edit .. Just reread question and I see u need ssl. Not sure how well this works over ssl but give it a go.
