Locking up an npm connect proxy

package.json

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "connect": "~3.3.4",
    "proxy-middleware": "~0.11.0",
    "url": "~0.10.3",
    "http": "0.0.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node server.js"
  }
}

proxy-blocker.sh

#!/bin/bash

while :
do
	curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8888/proxy/realnitro_300.png | head -c 20 > /dev/null
done

server.js

var connect = require('connect'),
    url = require('url'),
    proxy = require('proxy-middleware'),
    http = require('http');

var app = connect();
app.use('/proxy/', proxy(url.parse('http://realnitro.be/')));
http.createServer(app).listen(8888);