http-request v0.7.0

http-request �

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