http-request-parser

http-request-parser

Parse HTTP request message and create an object model for it. Can be used on server and client sides. To build HTTP request message from an object model use http-request-builder.

Features

• Parse HTTP request object:
  • headers (with parameters)
  • cookies
  • body (with supported contentTypes: multipart/form-data, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, text/plain)

Installation

npm i -S http-request-parser

Usage

const parser = require('http-request-parser');

let requestMsg = [
  'POST http://app.com/features?p1=v1 HTTP/1.1',
  'Host: example.com',
  'Connection: keep-alive',      
  'Cache-Control: no-cache',
  'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 WOW64)',
  'Content-Type: multipart/form-data;boundary=------11136253119209',
  'Content-Length: 101',
  'Cookie: csrftoken=123abc; sessionid=456def',
  'Accept: */*',
  'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate',
  'Accept-Language: en-US;q=0.6, en;q=0.4',
  '',
  '-----------------------------11136253119209',
  'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Name"',
  '',
  'Smith',
  '-----------------------------11136253119209',
  'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Age"',
  '',
  '25',
  '-----------------------------11136253119209--'
].join('\n');

let requestObj = parser.parse(requestMsg);
console.log(requestObj);

/* outputs:
{ 
  method: 'POST',
  protocol: 'HTTP',
  url: 'example.com/features?p1=v1',
  protocolVersion: 'HTTP/1.1',
  host: 'example.com',
  headers: [ 
    { name: 'Connection', values: [ { value: 'keep-alive', params: null } ] },          
    { name: 'Cache-Control', values: [ { value: 'no-cache', params: null } ] },
    { name: 'User-Agent', values: [ 
      { value: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 WOW64)', params: null } 
    ]},
    { name: 'Content-Type', values: [ { value: 'multipart/form-data', params: 'boundary=------11136253119209' } ] },
    { name: 'Content-Length', values: [ { value: '101', params: null } ] },
    { name: 'Accept', values: [ { value: '/', params: null } ] },
    { name: 'Accept-Encoding', values: [ 
      { value: 'gzip', params: null },
      { value: 'deflate', params: null }
    ]},
    { name: 'Accept-Language', values: [
      { value: 'en-US', params: 'q=0.6' },
      { value: 'en', params: 'q=0.4' } 
    ]}
  ],
  cookie: [
    { name: 'csrftoken', value: '123abc' },
    { name: 'sessionid', value: '456def' }
  ],
  body: {
    contentType: 'multipart/form-data',
    boundary: '------11136253119209',
    formDataParams: [
      { name: "Name", value: "Smith" },
      { name: "Age", value: "25" }
    ] 
  }
}
*/

Author

Alexander Mac

License

Licensed under the MIT license.