request-hash

Generate a hash from an express Request or http.IncomingMessage

Features

Highly configurable
- Options to hand-pick / filter which headers and cookies to use in order to create the hash
- BYO serialization, encoding and hashing algorithm with sane defaults
Works with any http.IncomingMessage or express.Request

Installation

$ npm install --save request-hash

Usage

Here's a simple example using an express app:

const requestHash = require('request-hash');
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const port = 3000

// Initialize hash method using custom options
const hash = requestHash({ serializer: JSON.stringify, algorithm: 'md5' });

app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send(hash(req)))

app.listen(port, () => console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}!`))

API

The API exposes an initialization function which receives the options in order to customize the hash, this main funciton returns another function that actually performs the hashing.

requestHash(options)

const requestHash = require('request-hash');
requestHash({
  algorithm: 'sha256',
  encoding: 'hex',
  expand: false,
  cookies: undefined, // undefined means all cookies are going to be used as-is
  headers: undefined, // undefined means all headers are going to be used as-is
  serializer: undefined // undefined means custom serialize function is going to be used
});

Options

algorithm: <string> Defines which hash algorithm to use, possible values depends on the supported OpenSSL version in the platform. Examples are sha256, sha512, md5, etc.
digest: <string> Defines a custom encoding to be used, possible values are: hex, latin1, base64.
serializer <function> An object serialization function to be used, if undefined uses a custom implementation
expand: <boolean> Allows you to bypass the hash algorithm, just returns the concatenated elements
cookies: <array> List of cookie keys to be used to create the unique hash, defaults to using all elements
headers: <array> List of header keys to be used to create the unique hash, defaults to using all elements

hash(request:http.IncomingMessage)

const requestHash = require('request-hash');
const hash = requestHash();

hash(req);

Alternatives

incoming-message-hash

ruyadorno/request-hash