Express.js req.body undefined

Question

I have this as configuration of my Express server

app.use(app.router); 
app.use(express.cookieParser());
app.use(express.session({ secret: \"keyboard cat\" }         


        

Answer 1

Building on @kevin-xue said, the content type needs to be declared. In my instance, this was only occurring with IE9 because the XDomainRequest doesn't set a content-type, so bodyparser and expressjs were ignoring the body of the request.

I got around this by setting the content-type explicitly before passing the request through to body parser, like so:

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
    // IE9 doesn't set headers for cross-domain ajax requests
    if(typeof(req.headers['content-type']) === 'undefined'){
        req.headers['content-type'] = "application/json; charset=UTF-8";
    }
    next();
})
.use(bodyParser.json());