 <p>You need to send the data out from the server code:</p> <pre><code>app.get('/content.json',function(req, res) { request("http://www.google.com", function(error, response, body) { res.send(body); }); }); </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> As the JS client is expecting appication/json, you should set the response header sent from server as well:</p> <pre><code>res .header('Content-Type', 'application/json') .send(body); </code></pre>