express-redirect-loop

Prevent redirect loops with sessions since HTTP referrer header is unreliable

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Contributors
• License

Install

npm:

npm install express-redirect-loop

yarn:

yarn add express-redirect-loop

Usage

const express = require('express');
const session = require('express-session');
const redirectLoop = require('express-redirect-loop');

const app = express();

app.use(
  session({
    secret: 'test',
    resave: false,
    saveUninitialized: true
  })
);

app.use(redirectLoop({
  defaultPath: '/',
  maxRedirects: 5
}));

app.get('/', (req, res) => res.sendStatus(200));
app.get('/bar', (req, res) => res.redirect('/foo'));
app.get('/foo', (req, res) => res.redirect('/foo'));
app.get('/baz', (req, res) => res.redirect('/bar'));

app.listen(3000);

Contributors

| Name | Website | | -------------- | -------------------------- | | Nick Baugh | http://niftylettuce.com/ |

License

MIT © Nick Baugh