General purpose HTTP / HTTPS client for node.js. Supports transparent gzip / deflate decoding.
npm install http-requestGeneral purpose HTTP / HTTPS client for node.js. Supports transparent gzip / deflate decoding. Successor of http-get.
> npm install http-request
* 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
* node.js v0.8.5+. Previous versions do not have proper SSL support.
* form-data
* mmmagic
* 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