How to redirect incoming URL requests by adding additional parameters

Question

Problem: I get an incoming HTTP request to my server application. The request is something like this : http://example.com?id=abc. I need to parse this request, patch additio

Answer 1

You have to pass the original response to your redirectUrl function, and let it write to the response. Something like:

function redirectUrl(myid, response) {
  var options = {
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 8080,
    path: '/temp.html?id=' + myid + '&name=cdf',
    method: 'GET'
  };
  var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
    console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
    console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
    res.setEncoding('utf8');

    // Proxy the headers
    response.writeHead(res.statusCode, res.headers);

    // Proxy the response
    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
      response.write(chunk);
    });
    res.on('end', function(){
        response.end();
      });
    });
  req.end();
}

Calling it:

redirectUrl(myid, response);

Also, since you're already parsing the url, why not do:

var parsedUrl = url.parse(request.url, true);
sys.debug("Get PathName" + parsedUrl.pathname + ":" + request.url);
//Call the redirect function
redirectUrl(parsedUrl.query.id, response);