Grabbing data from get request query node.js

Question

Grabbing data from get request query node.js

I am making fake image request.

client side

var image = document.createElement("img");
image.width = 1;
image.height = 1;
image.src = "http://localhost:8080/server/?currentVisitTimestamp%3D1369293177%26lastVisitTimestamp%3D1369293137" //enocded

Request status is 200

server side I am using express framework

   app.get('/server',function(request,response){
    console.log(request.query);
    response.send();
   });

console log prints as below:

{ 'currentVisitTimestamp=1369293177&lastVisitTimestamp=1369293137': '' }

output expected is smething like this

       'currentVisitTimestamp=1369293177&lastVisitTimestamp=1369293137'

why its constructing as key-value pair?

javascript
node.js
express
query-string

Answer 1

As documented in here,

req.query

This property is an object containing the parsed query-string, defaulting to {}.

As elclanrs mentioned in comment you could use req.originalUrl to get what you want.

It would be something like this:

var queryString = req.originalUrl.replace('/server?', '');
//queryString === 'currentVisitTimestamp=1369293177&lastVisitTimestamp=1369293137' ==> true