ppierre / simple-request-forwarding-app-engine

A simple application for forwarding request using Google App Engine

Request forwarding on Google App Engine

A simple application for forwarding request :

• Change HTTP method
• Set default parameters
• Filter request parameters
• Hide your secret :
  • Cloak forwarding URL
  • Choose request URL (long and/or cryptic)
  • Add HTTP basic authentication
  • Add additional parameters

Disclaimer : Not really tested, nor finished :(. I wrote this for a simple need : bypass a missing User-Agent and hide some password.

Installation

You need Google App Engine SDK

• And read documentation

• Clone this repository

• copy app-sample.yaml to app_engine/app.yaml

  • edit app_engine/app.yaml and change application id

• copy config-sample.yaml to app_engine/config.yaml

  • edit app_engine/config.yaml (see Configuration)

• copy config-test-local.yaml to app_engine/config-test-local.yaml

  • edit app_engine/config-test-local.yaml (see Configuration)

Configuration

see content in app_engine/config-sample.yaml

Need some documentation

app_engine/config-test-local.yaml is for local testing (with SDK). It will be merged with app_engine/config.yaml .

URL re-defined in app_engine/config-test-local.yaml will take over app_engine/config.yaml . It won't be used on deployed application.

Usage

Test

# Go to application directory and launch it with :
dev_appserver.py app_engine

Deployment

# After testing it, deploy on Google App Engine
appcfg.py update app_engine

See : Uploading Your Application

Far future :

• Documentation
• Unit test
• Parameters transformation
  • XSLT ?
  • JSONT ?
  • other ...