prepend-http

What is prepend-http?

The prepend-http npm package is a utility that ensures a URL has a protocol (http or https) prepended to it. This is useful for normalizing URLs and ensuring they are valid for HTTP requests.

What are prepend-http's main functionalities?

Prepend HTTP to URL

This feature allows you to prepend 'http://' to a URL if it does not already have a protocol. This is useful for ensuring that URLs are valid for HTTP requests.

const prependHttp = require('prepend-http');
const url = 'example.com';
const fullUrl = prependHttp(url);
console.log(fullUrl); // 'http://example.com'

Prepend HTTPS to URL

This feature allows you to prepend 'https://' to a URL if it does not already have a protocol. This is useful for ensuring that URLs are secure.

const prependHttp = require('prepend-http');
const url = 'example.com';
const fullUrl = prependHttp(url, {https: true});
console.log(fullUrl); // 'https://example.com'

Other packages similar to prepend-http

normalize-url

The normalize-url package is a more comprehensive solution for URL normalization. It not only ensures that a URL has a protocol, but also handles other aspects of URL normalization such as removing duplicate slashes, sorting query parameters, and more. It is more feature-rich compared to prepend-http.

url-parse

The url-parse package is a robust URL parsing library that can handle a wide range of URL manipulations, including ensuring that a URL has a protocol. It provides more extensive parsing and manipulation capabilities compared to prepend-http.

README

prepend-http

Prepend https:// to humanized URLs like sindresorhus.com and localhost

Install

$ npm install prepend-http

Usage

import prependHttp from 'prepend-http';

prependHttp('sindresorhus.com');
//=> 'https://sindresorhus.com'

prependHttp('localhost', {https: false});
//=> 'http://localhost'

prependHttp('https://sindresorhus.com');
//=> 'https://sindresorhus.com'

API

prependHttp(url, options?)

url

Type: string

The URL to prepend https:// to.

options

Type: object

https

Type: boolean
Default: true

Prepend https:// instead of http://.

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