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ajsie
ajsie

Reputation: 79806

Http request with node?

How do I make a Http request with node.js that is equivalent to this code:

curl -X PUT http://localhost:3000/users/1

Upvotes: 16

Views: 11376

Answers (3)

Clayton Gulick
Clayton Gulick

Reputation: 10365

For others googling this question, the accepted answer is no longer correct and has been deprecated.

The correct method (as of this writing) is to use the http.request method as described here: nodejitsu example

Code example (from the above article, modified to answer the question):

var http = require('http');

var options = {
  host: 'localhost',
  path: '/users/1',
  port: 3000,
  method: 'PUT'
};

callback = function(response) {
  var str = '';

  //another chunk of data has been recieved, so append it to `str`
  response.on('data', function (chunk) {
    str += chunk;
  });

  //the whole response has been recieved, so we just print it out here
  response.on('end', function () {
    console.log(str);
  });
}

http.request(options, callback).end();

Upvotes: 35

Swizec Teller
Swizec Teller

Reputation: 2322

Use the http client.

Something along these lines:

var http = require('http');
var client = http.createClient(3000, 'localhost');
var request = client.request('PUT', '/users/1');
request.write("stuff");
request.end();
request.on("response", function (response) {
    // handle the response
});

Upvotes: 22

PTT
PTT

Reputation: 566

var http = require('http');
var client = http.createClient(1337, 'localhost');
var request = client.request('PUT', '/users/1');
request.write("stuff");
request.end();
request.on("response", function (response) {
response.on('data', function (chunk) {
console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
 });
});

Upvotes: 0

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