How to get a JSON response from an external server and serve it back as the response to an HTTP request

node-read_remote_json_source.js

var http = require('http');

var clientResponseDataHandler = function(chunk) {
	this.compiledResponseString += chunk;
}
var clientResponseEndHandler = function() {
	var propertyName, httpResponse;
	console.log('-----------------------------------------------------------');
	console.log('END OF DATA FROM REMOTE SERVER');
	for (propertyName in this) {
		if (this.hasOwnProperty(propertyName)) {
			console.log(propertyName);
		}
	}
	console.log('complete: ', this.complete);
	console.log('req: ', this.req);

	httpResponse = this.req.theOriginalHttpResponseThatNeedsToBePassedThroughThisChainOfEvents;

	httpResponse.writeHead(200,{'Content-Type':'text/plain'});
	httpResponse.end(this.compiledResponseString);

};

var clientResponseHandler = function(clientResponse) {
	//console.log(clientResponse);

	clientResponse.compiledResponseString = '';

	console.log('STATUS: ' + clientResponse.statusCode);
	console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(clientResponse.headers));
	clientResponse.setEncoding('utf8');
	clientResponse.on('data', clientResponseDataHandler);
	clientResponse.on('end', clientResponseEndHandler);
};

var clientRequestErrorHandler = function(error) {
	console.log('problem with request: ', error);
};

var serverRequestHandler = function(serverRequest, serverResponse) {

	if(serverRequest.url !== '/favicon.ico'){
		var remoteAddress = 'http://vimeo.com/api/v2/admiral/likes.json';
		var clientRequest = http.request(remoteAddress, clientResponseHandler);
		clientRequest.theOriginalHttpResponseThatNeedsToBePassedThroughThisChainOfEvents = serverResponse;
		console.log('-----------------------------------------------------------');
		console.log('Firing request to: ', remoteAddress);
		console.log('-----------------------------------------------------------');
		clientRequest.on('error', clientRequestErrorHandler);
		//clientRequest.parser.on('body', clientRequestParserBodyHandler);
		clientRequest.end();
	}
};

var server = http.createServer(serverRequestHandler);

server.listen(9001);