express-public-url

This little module adds req.urlBase and req.publicUrl to your express routes to make it easy to get the incoming request URL regardless of where you app us running - behind a proxy, load-balancer etc.

Installation

npm install --save express-public-url

Usage

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
 
// require module
var expressPublicUrl = require('express-public-url');
 
// add middleware to get the public Url from either the http proxy headers or current request host
app.use(expressPublicUrl());

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History

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License

Licensed under MIT License © John Doherty