@request/core

HTTP Duplex Streams2 client. By default it behaves identically to Node’s Core http.request method.

Each additional feature must be enabled explicitly via option. Some options requires additional dependencies.

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Options

URL

url/uri

• String
• url.Url

qs

• Object
• String

Body

form

• Object
• String pass URL encoded string if you want it to be RFC3986 encoded prior sending

json

• Object

body

• Stream
• Buffer
• String
• Array

multipart - requires @request/multipart

Pass Object for multipart/form-data body:

// set item
multipart: {photo: fs.createReadStream('cat.png')}
// pass additional info about the uploaded item
multipart: {
  photo: {
    value: fs.createReadStream('cat.png'),
    options: {filename: 'cat.png', contentType: 'image/png', knownLength: 22025}
  }
}
// pass array of values for this item
multipart: {attachments: [fs.createReadStream('cat.png'), fs.createReadStream('dog.png')]}

The item’s value can be either: Stream, Request, Buffer or String.

Pass Array for any other multipart/[TYPE], defaults to multipart/related:

// Example: Upload image to Google Drive
multipart: [
  {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    body: JSON.stringify({title: 'cat.png'})
  },
  {
    'Content-Type': 'image/png',
    body: fs.createReadStream('cat.png')
  }
]

The body key is required and reserved for setting up the item’s body. It can be either: Stream, Request, Buffer or String.

Additionally you can set preambleCRLF and/or postambleCRLF to true.

Authentication

auth - digest auth requires @request/digest

• {user: '', pass: '', sendImmediately: false}
  • Sets the Authorization: Basic ... header.
  • The sendImmediately option default to true if omitted.
  • The sendImmediately: false options requires the redirect option to be enabled.
  • Digest authentication requires the @request/digest module.
• {bearer: '', sendImmediately: false}
  • Alternatively the Authorization: Bearer ... header can be set if using the bearer option.
  • The rules for the sendImmediately option from above applies here.

oauth - requires @request/oauth

hawk - requires hawk

httpSignature - requires http-signature

aws - requires aws-sign2

Modifiers

gzip

• gzip: true
  • Pipes the response body to zlib Inflate or Gunzip stream based on the compression method specified in the content-encoding response header.
• gzip: 'gzip' | gzip: 'deflate'
  • Explicitly specify which decompression method to use.

encoding - requires iconv-lite

• encoding: true
  • Pipes the response body to iconv-lite stream, defaults to utf8.
• encoding: 'ISO-8859-1' | encoding: 'win1251' | …
  • Specific encoding to use.
• encoding: 'binary'
  • Set encoding to 'binary' when expecting binary response.

Misc

cookie - requires tough-cookie

• true
• new require('tough-cookie).CookieJar(store, options)

length

• true defaults to false if omitted

callback

buffers the response body

• function(err, res, body) by default the response buffer is decoded into string using utf8. Set the encoding property to binary if you expect binary data, or any other specific encoding

redirect

• true follow redirects for GET, HEAD, OPTIONS and TRACE requests
• Object
  • all follow all redirects
  • max maximum redirects allowed
  • removeReferer remove the referer header on redirect
  • allow function (res) user defined function to check if the redirect should be allowed

timeout

• Number integer containing the number of milliseconds to wait for a server to send response headers (and start the response body) before aborting the request. Note that if the underlying TCP connection cannot be established, the OS-wide TCP connection timeout will overrule the timeout option

proxy

• String
• url.Url
• Object

{
  proxy: 'http://localhost:6767'
  //
  proxy: url.parse('http://localhost:6767')
  //
  proxy: {
    url: 'http://localhost:6767',
    headers: {
      allow: ['header-name'],
      exclusive: ['header-name']
    }
  }
}

tunnel - requires tunnel-agent

• true

parse

• {json: true}
  • sets the accept: application/json header for the request
  • parses JSON or JSONP response bodies (only if the server responds with the approprite headers)
• {json: function () {}}
  • same as above but additionally passes a user defined reviver function to the JSON.parse method
• {qs: {sep:';', eq:':'}}
  • qs.parse options to use
• {querystring: {sep:';', eq:':', options: {}}} use the [querystring][node-querystring] module instead
  • querystring.parse options to use

stringify

• {qs: {sep:';', eq:':'}}
  • qs.stringify options to use
• {querystring: {sep:';', eq:':', options: {}}} use the [querystring][node-querystring] module instead
  • querystring.stringify options to use

end

• true tries to automatically end the request on nextTick

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HTTPDuplex

Private Flags and State

• _initialized set when the outgoing HTTP request is fully initialized
• _started set after first write/end
• _req http.ClientRequest created in HTTPDuplex
• _res http.IncomingMessage created in HTTPDuplex
• _client http or https module
• _redirect boolean indicating that the client is going to be redirected
• _redirected boolean indicating that the client is been redirected at least once
• _src the input read stream, usually from pipe
• _chunks Array - the first chunk read from the input read stream
• _ended whether the outgoing request has ended
• _auth whether basic auth is being used
• _timeout timeout timer instance

Public Methods

• init
• abort

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Request

Methods

• Request the HTTPDuplex child class

Events

• init should be private I guess
• request req, options
• onresponse res - internal event to execute options response logic
• redirect res
• response res
• options emit @request/core options
• body emit raw response body, either Buffer or String (the callback option is required)
• json emit parsed JSON response body (the callback and the parse:{json:true} options are required)

req/res

• headers is instance of the @request/headers module

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Generated Options

• url contains the parsed URL
• redirect is converted to object containing all possible options including the followed state variable, containing the followed redirects count
• auth containes sent state variable indicating whether the Basic auth is sent already
• cookie is converted to object and containes the initial cookie header as a property
• jar the internal tough-cookie jar

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Logger

Requires @request/log

• req prints out the request method, url, and headers
• res prints out the response statusCode, statusMessage, and headers
• http prints out the options object passed to the underlying http.request method
• raw prints out the raw @request/core options object right before sending the request
• body prints out the raw request and response bodies (the response body is available only when the callback option is being used)
• json prints out the parsed JSON response body (only if the response body is a JSON one, and if the callback and parse.json options are being used)

$ DEBUG=req,res node app.js

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Errors

oauth

• oauth: transport_method: body requires method: POST and content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• oauth: signature_method: PLAINTEXT not supported with body_hash signing

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Notice

This module may contain code snippets initially implemented in request by request contributors.