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March 11, 2021 23:43
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Changing the font family of the BBC News website using a cloudflare worker.
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// what are the domains we are wanting to modify | |
const site = 'www.bbc.co.uk'; | |
const subdomain1 = 'm.files.bbci.co.uk'; | |
// do this on a fetch | |
addEventListener('fetch', event => { | |
const request = event.request | |
event.respondWith(handleRequest(request)) | |
}); | |
async function handleRequest(request) { | |
// store the URL | |
const url = new URL(request.url); | |
// disallow crawlers (write a robots.txt file) | |
if(url.pathname === "/robots.txt") { | |
return new Response('User-agent: *\nDisallow: /', {status: 200}); | |
} | |
// when overrideHost is used in a WPT script, WPT sets x-host to original host i.e. site we want to proxy | |
// store the value of x-host | |
const xhost = request.headers.get('x-host'); | |
// If the `x-host` header is missing, abort and tell us | |
if(!xhost) { | |
return new Response('x-host header missing', {status: 403}); | |
} | |
// set our hostname to that listed in the x-host header | |
url.hostname = xhost; | |
// get the accept header to allow us to examine the type of request it is | |
const acceptHeader = request.headers.get('accept'); | |
// check if the resource is being served from the main site domain | |
if(xhost === site){ | |
// check for an accept header and what it contains | |
if(acceptHeader && acceptHeader.indexOf('text/html') >= 0){ | |
// store this particular HTML response for modification | |
let oldResponse = await fetch(url.toString(), request) | |
// create a new response | |
let newResponse = new HTMLRewriter() | |
/** | |
* Our modifications to the HTML go in here using the HTMLRewriter API | |
* https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/html-rewriter | |
*/ | |
.transform(oldResponse) | |
// return the modified page | |
return newResponse | |
} | |
} | |
// check if the resource is being served from subdomain 1 | |
if(xhost === subdomain1){ | |
// Change CSS here | |
if(acceptHeader && acceptHeader.indexOf('text/css') >= 0){ | |
// grab the CSS response | |
const response = await fetch(url.toString(), request); | |
// extract the body of the request | |
let body = await response.text(); | |
// swap out our font family in the CSS body | |
body = body | |
.replace(/Arial,Helvetica,freesans,sans-serif/gi,'"Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", cursive;') | |
.replace(/Helvetica,Arial,freesans,sans-serif/gi,'"Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", cursive;'); | |
// return the modified response | |
return new Response(body, { | |
headers: response.headers | |
}); | |
} | |
} | |
// add additional domains here | |
// otherwise just proxy the request unmodified | |
return await fetch(url.toString(), request); | |
} |
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