HTTP Node

Question 1

Can send a request using Node’s HTTP library.

Answer 1

https: //nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_get_options_callback
http. get( [ options ], [ function to handle response ] );

http.get( 'http://nodejs.org/dist/index.json', (res) => {
  const { statusCode } = res;
  const contentType = res.headers['content-type'];
} );

http.get(options, (res) => {
  // Do stuff
}).on('socket', (socket) => {
  socket.emit('agentRemove');
});

http.get({
hostname: ‘localhost’,
port: 80,
path: ‘/’,
agent: false // create a new agent just for this one request
}, (res) => {
// Do stuff with response
});

var http = require('http');
function getTestPersonaLoginCredentials(callback) {

    return http.get({
        host: 'personatestuser.org',
        path: '/email'
    }, function(response) {
        // Continuously update stream with data
        var body = '';
        response.on('data', function(d) {
            body += d;
        });
        response.on('end', function() {

            // Data reception is done, do whatever with it!
            var parsed = JSON.parse(body);
            callback({
                email: parsed.email,
                password: parsed.pass
            });
        });
    });

Question 2

How does one make HTTP requests to external API’s and resources.

Answer 2

pass the url of the server resource into the http.request( ).