How to stop sending the req after an exception being thrown

[borzoum]

onProxyReq: (proxyReq, req, res) => {
try{
//something
}catch(err){
res.send(500);
}
even after sending back 500 to the caller, the proxy still tries to send the request ti the servcer.
What am I doing wrong?

[dobesv]

You didn't really give enough information, but my first guess would be that in //something you are doing something async, and thus your catch block isn't catching it. If you use async / await then your catch block can apply, otherwise you'll have to move the error handling into the appropriate place.

[bforbis]

@borzoum, once onProxyReq event is fired, the proxyReq object has already been created and the socket to the target host is open (though no data has been sent yet).

To abort the proxied request, you could do proxyReq.abort()