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'</html>'; response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"}); response.write(body); response.end(); } function upload(response, postData) { console.log("Request handler 'upload' was called."); response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"}); response.write("You've sent: " + postData); response.end(); } exports.start = start; exports.upload = upload;
Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it, we are now able to receive POST data and use it in our request handlers. One last thing for this topic: what we pass on to the router and the request handlers is the complete body of our POST request. We will probably want to consume the individual fields that make up the POST data, in this case, the value of the text field. We already read about the querystring module, which assists us with this: