Httpin Invalid Media Type

[KamalAman]

What are the steps to reproduce?

Setup a flow with the following configuration with an http in node and http response node

[
    {
        "id": "ebb295ab.e35dd8",
        "type": "tab",
        "label": "Flow 1",
        "disabled": false,
        "info": ""
    },
    {
        "id": "3d6dd12d.e3060e",
        "type": "http in",
        "z": "ebb295ab.e35dd8",
        "name": "Uploads XML documents",
        "url": "/xml_upload",
        "method": "post",
        "upload": false,
        "swaggerDoc": "",
        "x": 450,
        "y": 280,
        "wires": [
            [
                "1df08233.db4f9e"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "1df08233.db4f9e",
        "type": "http response",
        "z": "ebb295ab.e35dd8",
        "name": "",
        "statusCode": "",
        "headers": {},
        "x": 770,
        "y": 200,
        "wires": []
    }
]

Post the following payload to the server

curl -X POST \
  http://127.0.0.1:1880/api/xml_upload \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/xml; name=123' \
  -d '<Tag><Child></Child></Tag>'

What happens?

500 Internal Server Error - media-typer is unable to handle Content-Types with parameters

What do you expect to happen?

200 OK

Content-Type of application/xml; name=123 should be valid according to RFC 2045, Content-Types should support parameters type "/" subtype *(";" parameter)

An issue has been created with media-typer jshttp/media-typer#9
Consider moving to the better supported content-type npm module for the http in node. https://www.npmjs.com/package/content-type

Please tell us about your environment:

• Node-RED version: 0.20
• node.js version: 10
• npm version: 6.4
• Platform/OS: OSX
• Browser: Chrome

[KamalAman]

As media-typer suggested in jshttp/media-typer#9 you should use content-type instead for proper content-type support.

[knolleary]

Thanks for the pointer. Have switched over to the content-type module. Will be in 0.20.4 this week.