http-headers

http-headers

HTTP header string parser.

Converts:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:19:27 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

To this:

{ date: 'Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:19:27 GMT',
  connection: 'keep-alive',
  'transfer-encoding': 'chunked' }

Why?

If you've ever needed to log or in another way access the headers sent to the client on a http.ServerResponse in Node.js, you know it's not as easy as with the http.IncomingMessage headers (which you just access via request.headers['content-type']).

Response headers are not directly available on the response object. Instead all headers are preprocessed as a string on the private response._header property and needs to be processed in order to be available as an object.

This module makes the task super simple.

Installation

npm install http-headers

Usage

var httpHeaders = require('http-headers');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.end('Hello World');
  console.log('The headers sent to the client was:', httpHeaders(res));
});

License

MIT