How to read username and password from url in node.js?

Question

How to read username and password from url in node.js?

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:password@myurl.com/
        =================
//         /\
//         ||
// I need this part

Thanks for your help!

node.js

Answer 1

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?

Answer 2

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":

Node.js: get path from the request

Answer 3

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:password@myurl.com/
    //do something with url
}).listen(8081,'127.0.0.1');