decompress-request

Decompress an incoming HTTP request if needed.

Decompresses an incoming http request if it's gzipped, deflated or compressed with Brotli, otherwise just passes it through.

Install

npm install --save decompress-request

Usage

const http = require('http')
const raw = require('raw-body')
const decompressRequest = require('decompress-request')

const server = http.createServer(async (req, res) => {
  req = decompressRequest(req)

  // The request stream is now guaranteed to be inflated / decompressed.
  // You can use it as you would in any http handler.

  // rawBody is an uncompressed Buffer containing the raw request body
  const rawBody = await raw(req, opts)

  // body would contain the request body as a JSON object assuming it was application/json
  const body = JSON.parse(rawBody.toString('utf8'))
})

server.listen(3000)

API

decompressRequest

Decompresses an incoming HTTP request body stream if needed.

Type: function (request): IncomingMessage

• request IncomingMessage

Related

• decompress-response - Same as this module but for handling http responses.
• inflation - Same as this module but doesn't handle Brotli.

License

MIT © Travis Fischer