how do you send html with restify
Quick way to manipulate headers without changing formatters for the whole server:
A restify response object has all the "raw" methods of a node ServerResponse on it as well.
var body = '<html><body>hello</body></html>';res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(body), 'Content-Type': 'text/html'});res.write(body);res.end();
If you've overwritten the formatters in the restify configuration, you'll have to make sure you have a formatter for text/html. So, this is an example of a configuration that will send json and jsonp-style or html depending on the contentType specified on the response object (res):
var server = restify.createServer({ formatters: { 'application/json': function(req, res, body){ if(req.params.callback){ var callbackFunctionName = req.params.callback.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9_\.]/g, ''); return callbackFunctionName + "(" + JSON.stringify(body) + ");"; } else { return JSON.stringify(body); } }, 'text/html': function(req, res, body){ return body; } }});
Another option is to call
res.end('<html><body>hello</body></html>');Instead of
res.send('<html><body>hello</body></html>');