Http-proxy-middleware: FR: Add a option to allow change Referer header

[Jack-Works]

Expected behavior

change the Referer header or give a option to do this

Actual behavior

Directly passed.

Setup

See https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/issues/1151

• http-proxy-middleware: latest
• server: webpack-dev-server@latest
• other relevant modules

[chimurai]

Try using the headers option to supply your own referer header.
As documented in https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware#http-proxy-options

[Jack-Works]

Oh I just think headers option is that from server to client...
We need change the header like way of changeOrigin option, tell me if I got something wrong

[chimurai]

headers option is to change the headers between client to server.

referer can be basically any url. Not sure how you want to change that similar to changeOrigin.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referer

Perhaps you can explain your use case a bit?

[Jack-Works]

I've read that. Maybe I'm just not clear about what I am doing...

[SidKwok]

I got a js file, and use it in this way:

...
script.src = 'http://example/a/b/test.js'
...

And how am I supposed to write the proxy to change its referer.

[joaocraveiro]

@SidKwok were you ever able to solve that? I'm having the exact same issue.

[SidKwok]

@joaocraveriro it can’t be solved. It is a http request, webpack can’t proxy a http request. You can try to change headers via chrome extensions

[rnmhdn]

So what are we supposed to do if our backend enforces referer check??