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February 12, 2014 · View on GitHub

General purpose HTTP / HTTPS client for node.js. Supports transparent gzip / deflate decoding. Successor of http-get.

Installation

npm install http-request

Reference

The Request class - for implementing your own HTTP methods if wrappers aren't provided by the library
The DELETE method
The GET method
The HEAD method
The POST method
The PUT method
The MIME sniffer

System Requirements

node.js v0.8.5+. Previous versions do not have proper SSL support.
form-data
mmmagic

Contributors

cmtt - options.timeout, fixed the broken handling of buffered response when retrying the request with options.nocompress
elarcent - HTTP Basic auth fix
Gil Pedersen - Fixed the stream handling
Stefan Klug - Added support for custom Agent