Get url and body from IncomingMessage?

http, node.js

Solution

The reason that you do not see the query string at `request.url` is that you aren't sending one correctly. In your request code, there is no `query` property of `options`. You must append your querystring to the `path`.

path: '/' + '?' +  querystring.stringify({argument: 'narnia'}),

For your second question, if you want the full request body, you must read from the request object like a stream.

var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
  request.on('data', function (chunk) {
    // Do something with `chunk` here
  });
});

Problem

I am very new to node. I am at the point at which I have a simple server which should just print the request query and the request body which it takes. What I've understood is that the "handle request" function actually doesn't return a request object, rather an `IncomingMessage` object. There are two things which I don't understand: How to obtain the query string and the body. I get just the path, without the query and undefined for the body. Server Code: ``` var http = require('http'); var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) { console.log("Request query " + request.url); console.log("Request body " + request.body); response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"}); response.end("<h1>Hello world!</h1>"); }); server.listen(8000); console.log("Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/"); ``` Request code: ``` var http = require('http'); var options = { host: '127.0.0.1', port: 8000, path: '/', query: "argument=narnia", method: 'GET' }; var req = http.request(options, function(res) { res.setEncoding('utf8'); res.on('data', function (chunk) { console.log('response: ' + chunk); }); }); req.on('error', function(e) { console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message); }); req.write("<h1>Hello!</h1>"); req.end(); ``` Please note that I am a complete beginner. I am not looking for express only solutions.

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