Proxying API through Netlify's CDN

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Hello, so I am currently trying to use a JAMSTACK on my site and I’ve got some problems.
I will try to explain it as much as I can.

So I host a REST API on a 3rd party server and I would like to proxy that REST API through the netlify’s CDN.

I read this Rewrites and proxies | Netlify Docs and I tried to add

/example/* http://IP:PORT/api/something:splat 200

I put it into _redirects, but when I use a Postman to check if is example.mywebsitename.netlify.com working, I get a “Not found” message.

Also this.image

Is it a big problem that I don’t use HTTPS on my REST API server when I want to proxy it through netlify?

Do I understand it correctly?

Thanks in advance

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Hi, @Ahmed_Nakadi, and welcome to the Netlify community site. :+1:

I think I see a possible issue based on the rule posted above. You cannot set a port in a redirect. We will only redirect to port 80 for HTTP and to port 443 for HTTPS requests.

Are you trying to redirect to a different TCP port? If so, that isn’t possible at Netlify.

We’d be happy to enter a feature request for this if you are interested though. If there are other questions about this also, please let us know.

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Hello Luke, yes it would be awesome if you would ever add that feature. I’m slowly getting in love with JAMSTACK and this would help me a lot. And I think that I am not the only one.

But if you guys have any other idea how to host a REST API on your own VPS server or on herokuapp and proxy it through the netlify’s CDN ( i hope i understand it correctly ), then hit me up please

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great, we will file a feature request, and if we have any other bright ideas we’ll let you know.