Node JS get key value pairs from header

Question

Node JS get key value pairs from header

If the request contains a header such as:

Authorization: Digest username="Mufasa",
                      realm="testrealm@host.com",
                      nonce="dcd98b7102dd2f0e8b11d0f600bfb0c093"

Does node have any built-in way to extract the key value pairs? Or should I just use string.split?

javascript
node.js

Answer 1

Use the URL module http://nodejs.org/api/url.html

Example: http://www.host.com:8080/path?name=daniel

Takes a URL string, and return an object.
url.parse(urlStr, [parseQueryString], [slashesDenoteHost])

var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
  var queryData = url.parse(request.url, true).query;
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
  response.end('Hello ' + queryData.name + '\n');
}

In this example name is mapped to daniel.