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vision media [ Tj Holowaychuk ]  
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From: "vision media [ Tj Holowaychuk ]" <t...@vision-media.ca>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:47:06 -0700
Local: Sat, Oct 30 2010 9:47 pm
Subject: Re: [Express-js] req.body undefined in POST request
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few pointers:

   1.  you are not required to use app.configure() if you dont plan on (or
   need) different environments
   2. you need to set the Content-Type to either application/json or
   application/x-www-form-urlencoded, these are the two that bodyDecoder parses

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:27 PM, soeren <soeren.roer...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,

> I seem to have a problem with req.body being "undefined" when using a
> POST request. Im using expresso to do the POST:

> -- snip
> assert.response(server, {
>    url: '/',
>    method: 'POST',
>    data: '{"somevar": "somestring"}'
>  }, {
>     body: 'someresponse'
> });
> -- /snip

> express = require('express').
> server = express.createServer();

> server.configure(function() { server.use(express.bodyDecoder()); };

> server.post('/', function(req, res) {
>        console.log(req.body);
> });

> I'm using version 1.0.0rc4.
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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