How to know if a request is http or https in node.js

Question

I am using nodejs and expressjs. I wonder if there is something like request.headers.protocol in the clientRequest object. I would like to build the baseUrl for

Answer 1

If you want to know whether request is http or https then use this in your code:

req.headers.referer.split(':')[0];

This will return whether req is http or https.