cube-proxy.js

var http = require('http'),
    httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
//
// A node http-proxy application to sit in front of a cube server (https://github.com/square/cube) 
// and do some primitive authentication to require a password (specified in the 'cube-password' header
// in order call the write apis, but still allowing anyone to call the read apis.
//
httpProxy.createServer(function (req, res, proxy) {
  
  if(req.method !== 'OPTIONS' && req.method !== 'GET') {
    if(req.headers['cube-password'] !== 'change_this_password') {
      res.writeHead(403);
      res.end();
      return;
    }
    proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, {
      host: 'localhost',
      port: 1080
    });
  } else {
    proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, {
      host: 'localhost',
      port: 1081
    });
  }
}).listen(80);