Node JS Twitter Stream behind a proxy

node-twitterstream-proxy.js

var user="your_user"
var password="your_password"
var proxy_host="your_proxy.com"
var proxy_port=80

var http = require('http'), sys = require('sys')
var proxy = http.createClient(proxy_port, proxy_host);

var request = proxy.request('GET', '/1/statuses/sample.json', { host: 'stream.twitter.com', Authorization:new Buffer(user+":"+password).toString('base64')});

request.addListener('response', function(response) { 
	response.addListener('data', function(chunk) { sys.puts(chunk) });
	response.addListener('end', function() { sys.puts("end") });
});

request.end();

quick test of the twitter stream api behind a firewall