Make the raw body string available

[richthegeek]

As far as I can tell, getting the raw body is currently impossible - using the "raw-body" module seems to return false regardless of what I do.

This puts it onto the req object should you want to use it directly instead of after parsing in cases where you need to do so (for example, HMAC checking)

[dougwilson]

for example, HMAC checking

have you tried the verify option yet?

[charyorde]

Can you please provide some example?

I'm looking at should error from verify in https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/blob/master/test/raw.js , but can't make a sense of it yet.

The question is how to use buf to make sure I get the raw request body (which is like this: username=myname&password=mypass) without having it transformed to json.

[dougwilson]

@charyorde please open a new issue, with a lot more information for me to go on, rather than resurrecting a really old issue.