You are tasked with creating an HTTP proxy server using the http module. What steps and considerations would you take to handle incoming requests and forward them to the appropriate destination?
- Parse the incoming request, extract the destination URL, and create a new request to the destination server.
- Directly pass the incoming request to the destination server without any parsing.
- Block all incoming requests as proxy servers should only send responses.
- Use the 'fs' module to read and forward the request to the destination.
To create an HTTP proxy server, you should parse the incoming request, extract the destination URL, and create a new request to the destination server. The other options are not suitable for proxy server implementations.
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