Move away from unmaintained http-proxy npm package #1136
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The node-http-proxy project http-party/node-http-proxy#1588 has no releases for 5 years now. There are currently 510 issues and 108 open PRs including several security related ones.
node-http-proxy also uses outdated follow-redirects that has vulnerabilities. Vite has already switched to http-proxy-3 to address similar problems: vitejs/vite#20402
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