Https-aware

Be aware wether initial request was HTTPS or HTTP.

Why

Behing Proxy, Load balancer or other tricky network infrastructure request protocol is often balanced between HTTPS/HTTP.

This module make a header check for following headers

• Front-End-Https
• X-Forwarded-Proto

In my case, a load balancer was setting 'front-end-https' to 'on'.

Default node HTTP 'request' object prototype is enhanced to get a new method : isHttps() but, you may use isHttps(req) instead.

Installation

Using npm:

npm install https-aware

Usage

var aware = require('https-aware');
var http = require('http');
// your stuff...
 
// express style
var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {            
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.end('request was made with https header or not :' + req.isHttps());
}).listen(8081); 
 
// express style
var server2 = http.createServer(function(req, res) {            
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.end('request was made with https header or not :' + aware.isHttps(req));
}).listen(8081);

Build

You can run the tests by running

npm install

or

npm test

assuming you already have grunt installed, otherwise you also need to do:

npm install -g grunt-cli

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Julien Valéry

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