Simple pipe driven proxy server

proxy-pipe.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

var sys = require('sys'),
    url = require('url'),
    http = require('http'),
    port = 9000,
    acceptor = http.createServer().listen(port),
    host = process.argv[2] || 'localhost';

acceptor.on('request', function(request, response) {
    console.log('request ' + request.url);
    request.pause();
    var options = url.parse(request.url);
    options.headers = request.headers;
    options.method = request.method;
    options.agent = false;

    var connector = http.request(options, function(serverResponse) {
            serverResponse.pause();
            response.writeHeader(serverResponse.statusCode, serverResponse.headers);
            serverResponse.pipe(response);
            serverResponse.resume();
    });
    request.pipe(connector, {end:true});
    request.resume();
});

sys.puts("Server running at http://".concat(host, ':', port));