node.js HTTPS (SSL) Server Example

silas — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A simple HTTPS server using node.js:

const crypto = require('crypto'),
      fs = require("fs"),
      http = require("http");

var privateKey = fs.readFileSync('privatekey.pem').toString();
var certificate = fs.readFileSync('certificate.pem').toString();

var credentials = crypto.createCredentials({key: privateKey, cert: certificate});

var handler = function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World\n');
};

var server = http.createServer();
server.setSecure(credentials);
server.addListener("request", handler);
server.listen(8000);

You can generate the privatekey.pem and certificate.pem files using the following commands:

openssl genrsa -out privatekey.pem 1024 
openssl req -new -key privatekey.pem -out certrequest.csr 
openssl x509 -req -in certrequest.csr -signkey privatekey.pem -out certificate.pem

Update: Thanks to Kord Campbell for spotting an issue and sending a fix!

Auto-reload node.js (OS X)

silas — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

restarter is a simple Python application which runs a specified command and restarts the command each time a file event occurs in a specified directory.

I created restarter because there isn't auto-reload functionality built into node.js (at the time of this post).

Example

[silas@blackbox keyfu.js]$ restarter node keyfu.js
Express started at http://localhost:3000/ in development mode

Usage

Usage: restarter [options] command

Options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --path=PATH    directory to watch for file event changes
  --ignore=PATH  specifies events to ignore

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node.js HTTPS (SSL) Server Example

Auto-reload node.js (OS X)