Modify request property
Create a modified request with edited properties based off of an incoming request.
export default { async fetch(request) { /** * Example someHost is set up to return raw JSON * @param {string} someUrl the URL to send the request to, since we are setting hostname too only path is applied * @param {string} someHost the host the request will resolve too */ const someHost = "example.com"; const someUrl = "https://foo.example.com/api.js";
/** * The best practice is to only assign new RequestInit properties * on the request object using either a method or the constructor */ const newRequestInit = { // Change method method: "POST", // Change body body: JSON.stringify({ bar: "foo" }), // Change the redirect mode. redirect: "follow", // Change headers, note this method will erase existing headers headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", }, // Change a Cloudflare feature on the outbound response cf: { apps: false }, };
// Change just the host const url = new URL(someUrl);
url.hostname = someHost;
// Best practice is to always use the original request to construct the new request // to clone all the attributes. Applying the URL also requires a constructor // since once a Request has been constructed, its URL is immutable. const newRequest = new Request( url.toString(), new Request(request, newRequestInit) );
// Set headers using method newRequest.headers.set("X-Example", "bar"); newRequest.headers.set("Content-Type", "application/json"); try { return await fetch(newRequest); } catch (e) { return new Response(JSON.stringify({ error: e.message }), { status: 500, }); } },
};
export default { async fetch(request) { /** * Example someHost is set up to return raw JSON * @param {string} someUrl the URL to send the request to, since we are setting hostname too only path is applied * @param {string} someHost the host the request will resolve too */ const someHost = "example.com"; const someUrl = "https://foo.example.com/api.js";
/** * The best practice is to only assign new RequestInit properties * on the request object using either a method or the constructor */ const newRequestInit = { // Change method method: "POST", // Change body body: JSON.stringify({ bar: "foo" }), // Change the redirect mode. redirect: "follow", // Change headers, note this method will erase existing headers headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", }, // Change a Cloudflare feature on the outbound response cf: { apps: false }, };
// Change just the host const url = new URL(someUrl);
url.hostname = someHost;
// Best practice is to always use the original request to construct the new request // to clone all the attributes. Applying the URL also requires a constructor // since once a Request has been constructed, its URL is immutable. const newRequest = new Request( url.toString(), new Request(request, newRequestInit) );
// Set headers using method newRequest.headers.set("X-Example", "bar"); newRequest.headers.set("Content-Type", "application/json"); try { return await fetch(newRequest); } catch (e) { return new Response(JSON.stringify({ error: e.message }), { status: 500, }); } },
} satisfies ExportedHandler;