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Basic example on how to get the body data of a HTTP request in node.js
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| var http = require('http'); | |
| var querystring = require('querystring'); | |
| var utils = require('utils'); | |
| http.createServer(function (req, res) { | |
| switch(req.url) { | |
| case '/': | |
| res.writeHead(200, "OK", {'Content-Type': 'text/html'}); | |
| res.write('<html><head><title>Example</title></head><body>'); | |
| res.write('<form enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" action="/formhandler" method="post">'); | |
| res.write('<input type="text" name="foobar" value="foobar" />'); | |
| res.write('<input type="text" name="barfoo" value="123" />'); | |
| res.write('<input type="submit" />'); | |
| res.write('</form></body></html'); | |
| res.end(); | |
| break; | |
| case '/formhandler': | |
| if (req.method == 'POST') { | |
| res.writeHead(200, "OK", {'Content-Type': 'text/html'}); | |
| req.on('data', function(chunk) { | |
| // body data is received | |
| // for productive use this chunk of data might have to be | |
| // buffered and processed in the end-event | |
| res.write(utils.inspect(querystring.parse(chunk))); | |
| }); | |
| req.on('end', function() { | |
| // no more body data -> end response | |
| res.end(); | |
| }); | |
| } else { | |
| res.writeHead(405, "Method not supported", {'Content-Type': 'text/html'}); | |
| res.end(); | |
| } | |
| break; | |
| default: | |
| res.writeHead(404, "Not found", {'Content-Type': 'text/html'}); | |
| res.end('<html><head><title>404 - Not found</title></head><body><h1>Not found.</h1></body></html>'); | |
| console.log("[404] " + req.url); | |
| }; | |
| }).listen(8080); |
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