express-url v1.4.0

express-url

URL normalisation for Express and Connect

About

Taking care of

• trailing slashes
• repeated slashes
• repeated question marks
• repeated ampersands
• repeated query strings
• case sensitivity

Redirect example

request:  //sLuG??param=val&&param2=val2
response: /slug/?param=val&param2=val2

Installation

$ npm install express-url

Usage

As middelware

// Require module
var expurl = require('express-url');

// Process routes through middleware
app.use(expurl());

Middelware options

app.use(expurl({
    requestType: 'GET',
    redirectStatusCode: 302,
    lowercase: true,
    trailingSlash: true,
    repetedSlash: true,
    repeatedQuestionMark: true,
    repeatedAmpersand: true
}));

Tests

$ npm install
$ cd node_modules/express-url
$ npm test

Recommendations

• do not serve static files with node directly
• use case sensitive and strict routing

app.set('case sensitive routing', true);
app.set('strict routing', true);