Merge pull request linkerd#39 from BuoyantIO/siggy/http-proxy

add simple http-proxy example

Author: siggy

http-proxy/README.md

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+# Example config for linkerd as an HTTP Proxy
+
+For more information see our
+[HTTP Proxy documentation](https://linkerd.io/getting-started/http-proxy/).
+
+## Setup webapp
+
+```bash
+echo "Hello world" > hello; python3 -m http.server 8888
+```
+
+## Setup linkerd
+
+```bash
+curl -sLO https://github.com/BuoyantIO/linkerd/releases/download/0.8.2/linkerd-0.8.2-exec
+chmod +x linkerd-0.8.2-exec
+./linkerd-0.8.2-exec ./linkerd.yaml
+```
+
+## Test
+
+```bash
+$ http_proxy=localhost:4140 curl -s http://webapp/hello
+Hello world
+```

http-proxy/linkerd.yaml

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+routers:
+- protocol: http
+  baseDtab: /http/1.1/*/webapp => /$/inet/127.1/8888
+  servers:
+  - ip: 0.0.0.0
+    port: 4140