How to set headers other than Content-type?

[robynitp]

Is there a way to send additional headers besides the content type used in header()? Is there a way to access the response object so I could, for example, set an access control header or send a 404?

If it's not possible with the existing servi API, I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to use another module to do it while still using servi for everything else. Basically, I see that node's http is being used behind the scenes, but can't figure out if there's a way to access it through any of servi's available methods.

[shiffman]

In prepping examples I just ran into this as well. I'm trying to think of what might be appropriate API. For example, we currently have the beautifully simple:

function something(request) {
  request.respond('hello!');
}

Some awful looking ideas are:

function something(request) {
  request.responseType('text');
  request.respond('hello');
}

function something(request, response) {
  response.type('text');
  response.send('hello');
}

Will think some more.

[robynitp]

Well, we have:

request.header("application/json");

but the only header it sets is the Content-type.

[shiffman]

ah, zoinks, sorry I missed that. Perfect! Maybe for other headers it should take two arguments:

request.header("some header type","the value");

[robynitp]

I like that. Wonder if it could be called multiple times for multiple headers, or if an object might be the way to go, similar to response.writeHead in node http:

{
  'Content-Length': 1234,
  'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
  'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*'
 }

Maybe sending a string param indicates you're setting just the content-type, and sending an object lets you set a bunch of stuff.

[vanevery]

Agreed.. We should do this at the very least:
request.header("some header type","the value");