Request Header Parser Microservice

This is a Request Header Parser microservice built using Next.js. It is deployed on Vercel and provides an API endpoint that returns information about the client's IP address, language, and operating system based on the HTTP request headers.

Features

• Parses client IP address
• Detects language from the Accept-Language header
• Identifies the software/operating system from the User-Agent header
• Built using Next.js with a simple frontend and backend API integration

Demo

You can check out the live demo of the project here: Live Demo

Getting Started

Follow these instructions to get a copy of the project up and running on your local machine.

Prerequisites

• Node.js v14 or higher
• npm or yarn

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/request-header-parser.git
   cd request-header-parser
   
    Install dependencies:
   
    bash

npm install

Run the development server:

bash

npm run dev

Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000.

Building for Production

To build the project for production, run:

bash

npm run build

After building, you can start the production server with:

bash

npm start

API Documentation GET /api/whoami

Returns an object with the following details about the request:

ipaddress: Client's IP address
language: Preferred language from the Accept-Language header
software: The client's operating system from the User-Agent header

Example Response:

json

{ "ipaddress": "192.168.1.1", "language": "en-US", "software": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0" }

Technologies Used

Next.js - The React Framework for production
Node.js - JavaScript runtime for server-side code
HTML/CSS - For the frontend layout and styling

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.