I need to get the username and the password that a browser has send to my node.js application from the url.
I digged through various documentations and objects but I can't find anything useful. Does anybody know how to do that? Using Authentication header is not an option because modern bowsers don't set them.
https://username:[email protected]/
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// I need this part
Thanks for your help!
This method of authentication is called "Basic Auth". You can access username and password via basic-auth npm package using bellow code:
const express = require('express');
const basicAuth = require('basic-auth');
let app = express();
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
let user = basicAuth(req);
console.log(user.name); //prints username
console.log(user.pass); //prints password
});
app.listen(3000, function () {});
Now if you send a request to http://username:password@localhost:3000/ this code will print your username and password in the console.
Be aware that this method of authentication is not supported in most of the browsers anymore.
simple-git package that the way of authentication in git repository. npmjs.com/package/simple-git#authentication
curl -XGET http://user:pass@localhost:3000/ As I told you before, browsers no longer send basic authentication data and if you are sending requests to your server with your browser, you can't access them in your server.
The username:password is contained in the Authorization header as a base64-encoded string:
http.createServer(function(req, res) {
var header = req.headers['authorization'] || '', // get the header
token = header.split(/\s+/).pop()||'', // and the encoded auth token
auth = new Buffer(token, 'base64').toString(), // convert from base64
parts=auth.split(/:/), // split on colon
username=parts[0],
password=parts[1];
res.writeHead(200,{'Content-Type':'text/plain'});
res.end('username is "'+username+'" and password is "'+password+'"');
}).listen(1337,'127.0.0.1');
see this post: Basic HTTP authentication in Node.JS?
This is exactly what you're looking for:
http://nodejs.org/api/url.html
If you want to know where to get the URL itself from, it is passed in the request object, also known as "path":
The http://username:[email protected] format is no longer supported by either IE or Chrome, wouldn't be surprised if others followed suit if they haven't already.
(From T.J. Crowder comment here)
/createserver/:username/:password
let params={
userName:req.params.username,
password:req.params.password
}
console.log(params);
Is this is what you wanted .?
the URL is accessible by the server in the request object :
http.createServer(function(req, res) {
var url = req.url
console.log(url) //echoes https://username:[email protected]/
//do something with url
}).listen(8081,'127.0.0.1');
