Browsersync middleware: Redirect from a post request

Question

We are using browsersync in development. For a payment confirmation, the payment provider posts back to a predefined url.

The problem is, that Browsersync only displays Cannot POST /payment/success.

So I was thinking about writing a middleware that takes the POST request and redirects to the same URL as a GET request. The problem is, I'm not sure if this is possible with browser sync. When I try to call res.redirect('/') it throws an error:

    browserSync.init
        server:
            baseDir: "...."
            index: "/statics/master.html"
            middleware: [
                modRewrite(['!\\.\\w+$ /statics/master.html [L]']),
                (req, res, next) ->
                    res.redirect('/') # this throws a TypeError: res.redirect is not a function
            ]

1. Why is res.redirect not defined? I thought browser sync is based on express?
2. How could I access the body of the post request? req.body returns undefined

Answer 1

browserSync uses Connect for the middleware and doesn't share the same api as Express it seems.

For a redirect you can at least do the following:

res.writeHead(301, {Location: url});
res.end();

Have a look at their documentation for accessing the request body. The section in Middleware regarding body parsing may yield some results for you.