nodejitsu/node-http-proxy — comment on commit 7632cc5c66fb640527c5834de67bb0115a422c84
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By indexzero:

@indutny Are you sure this will work? @isaacs found that in production `res.resume()` and `res.end()` can throw. By using `.pipe()` we will not be catching these exceptions.

I'm not sure if this is fixed in `node@0.5.x`, but until we are sure, we should be wary of changing it.