Azure Functions proxies

Another cool but simple feature of Azure Functions is proxies. The Proxies menu item is directly under your functions in your Function App. With proxies, you can put a small, lightweight proxy in front of basically anything.

Creating a proxy

To show you that really anything goes, we're going to set up a proxy to https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/:

1. Create a new Function App.
2. Go to Proxies.
3. Click the + New proxy button.
4. Give your proxy a name, such as MyFirstProxy:

5. Define a Route template. This is the path after the base URL. Put myfirstproxy here.
6. We can also specify which HTTP methods are allowed. Select Selected methods and click the GET method.
7. The backend URL is the...