Listen on HTTP and HTTPS for a single express app

Question

Can I create an Express server listening on both HTTP and HTTPS, with the same routes and the same middlewares?

Currently I do this with Express on HTTP, with stunne

Answer 1

If you want to use the traditional two ports, one of the above solutions probably works, but using httpolyglot, you can really easily have http and https on the same port with the same middlewares.

https://github.com/mscdex/httpolyglot

Here's some skeleton code that worked for me:

var express = require('express');
var fs = require('fs');
var httpolyglot = require('httpolyglot');
var app = express();

const options = {
    key: fs.readFileSync("/etc/ssl/certs/key"),
    cert: fs.readFileSync("/etc/ssl/certs/cer.cer")
};

httpolyglot.createServer(options, app).listen(port);

and if you want http -> https forwarding, you can just add this middleware function before the createServer() call:

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
    if (!req.secure ) {
            res.redirect (301, 'https://' + req.hostname + ':port' + req.originalUrl);
    }
    next();
});

This can be set up on a custom port