With this post, I will write about using simple Example Code GET and POST in Node.js. In this post, I use this library (Simplified HTTP request client.) And here is the code:
GET
var request = require('request');
// Set the headers
var headers = {
'User-Agent': 'Super Agent/0.0.1',
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
}
// Configure the request
var options = {
url: 'http://hostforlife.eu',
method: 'GET',
headers: headers,
qs: {'key1': 'xxx', 'key2': 'yyy'}
}
// Start the request
request(options, function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
// Print out the response body
console.log(body)
}
})
Above code will do GET https://localhost:8080/?key1=xxx&key2=yyy
POST
var request = require('request');
// Set the headers
var headers = {
'User-Agent': 'Super Agent/0.0.1',
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
}
// Configure the request
var options = {
url: 'http://hostforlife.eu',
method: 'POST',
headers: headers,
form: {'key1': 'xxx', 'key2': 'yyy'}
}
// Start the request
request(options, function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
// Print out the response body
console.log(body)
}
})
Above code will do POST https://localhost:8080/ with key1=xxx&key2=yyy in the body.
Handling gzip encoding
To handle gzip encoded response, you will need the compress-buffer library.
var uncompress = require('compress-buffer').uncompress;
// Set the headers and options ...
request(options, function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
// Handle gzip
var encoding = response.headers['content-encoding']
if(encoding && encoding.indexOf('gzip')>=0) {
body = uncompress(body);
}
body = body.toString('utf-8');
// Print out the response body
console.log(body)
// If it is json
var json_body = JSON.parse(body);
}
})
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