How do I restrict the user from accessing the static html files in a ExpressJS/NodeJS?

Question

Is there any way to detect the request URL of the user and reroute to a particular error page, like for example, I want all the routes to any HTML file (*.html), kind of detect it and want it to be rerouted to an Error page. Also hide it from the user to view it.

PS: Using Express 4 and Latest Node.JS version.

app.get('/', function(req,res){
    if(req.is('text/html') == true){
        res.redirect('/login');
    }

This doesn't seem to work, I think I am missing the parament in the get request.

Please guide. Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Assume that you have the text html in your url, and whenever this is the case you want to route it to login . Try following:

app.use(function (req, res, next) {
    if ((req.path.indexOf('html') >= 0)) {
        res.redirect('/login');
    } 
});

It checks your url path, and if it detects html it will redirect to login