http-headers-validation

Introduction

This is a small utility for validating HTTP header names and values according to the standart. It is useful in modules which expect users to provide some headers through options.

Install

This module can be used as npm package. To install it type:

$ npm install http-headers-validation

in the command line.

Also if you want to use the module as a client side library just import the index.js file through a <script> tag into your html document. The API is exposed through a global variable called headerUtils.

API

validateHeaderName(headerName)

• headerName - A non-empty string representing the header name which we want to validate.

The function returns false if the headerName is invalid according to the standart and true otherwise.

var headerUtils = require('http-headers-validation');

headerUtils.validateHeaderName('If-Unmodified-Since'); // true
headerUtils.validateHeaderName('X-Forwarded-Host'); // true
headerUtils.validateHeaderName('Front-End-[]'); // false

validateHeaderValue(headerValue)

• headerValue - A non-empty string representing the header value which we want to validate.

The function returns false if the headerValue is invalid according to the standart and true otherwise.

var headerUtils = require('http-headers-validation');

headerUtils.validateHeaderValue('VQcFUFFRCBABUFhaAwQOVw=='); // true
headerUtils.validateHeaderValue('valueWithTabulation\t'); // true
headerUtils.validateHeaderValue('\n\b'); // false

validateHeader(headerName, headerValue)

• headerName - A non-empty string representing the header name which we want to validate.
• headerValue - A non-empty string representing the header value which we want to validate.

The function returns false if headerName or headerValue is invalid and true otherwise.

var headerUtils = require('http-headers-validation');

headerUtils.validateHeader('Cache-Control', 'public, max-age=2000'); // true
headerUtils.validateHeader('Front-End-[]', 'backspace\bValue'); // false

Testing and contributing

Every suggestions for improvements and bugfixes are welcomed in the Issues section.

For testing the module you need npm installed:

$ npm install
$ npm test

License

MIT