There are three common ways to set value for Content-Type in a HTTP request: application/x-www-form-urlencoded, application/json, multipart/form-data. Each of them has a different role, and use in different cases.
If you are working on Express and Nodejs, you are very familiar to use the body-parser library to pre-handle a request data especially in POST method. In which case, for example, the client or 3rd party uses application/x-www-form-urlencoded and encoded the body data. At your side, you have to verify, but they encoded it based on raw data. Therefore if you set:
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());then you will never get your goal. Because they are parsing the data to JSON type in the body.
How to get raw data?
Let’s go to inside the body-parser lib, you will see a verify function:
Our purpose to get a Buffer of the raw request body, so we will add this option to urlencoded method
by following:
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
extended: true,
verify: (req, res, buf, encoding)=>{
if (buf && buf.length) {
req.rawBody = buf.toString(encoding || 'utf8')
}
}
}))
Hopefully, it helps you.
