koa-redirect-loop

Prevent redirect loops with sessions since HTTP referrer header is unreliable and ensures sessions are saved upon redirect

Note that this package only supports koa-generic-session, since other packages do not expose a save method used in res.end override.

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Options
• Contributors
• License

Install

npm:

npm install koa-redirect-loop

Usage

const Koa = require('koa');
const session = require('koa-generic-session');
const RedirectLoop = require('koa-redirect-loop');

const redirectLoop = new RedirectLoop({
  defaultPath: '/',
  maxRedirects: 5,
  logger: console
});

const app = new Koa();
app.keys = [ 'secret' ];

app.use(session());
app.use(redirectLoop.middleware);

Options

• getDefaultPath (Function) - function which accepts ctx argument and returns a path to fallback to, defaults to either /${ctx.request.locale} (e.g. if using @ladjs/i18n) or /
• defaultPath (String) - path to fallback to, defaults to '/'
• maxRedirects (Number) - maximum number of redirects to allow, defaults to 5
• console (Object) - a logger instance, defaults to console

Contributors

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

License

MIT © Nick Baugh