If three walls and a floor make a house, then you can call this a http request library.
It started as a debugging tool, for better introspection in a highly concurrent system that was exhibitting odd latency.
But then this module showed some prety consistent performance advantages over mainstream libraries like Request.
This module will perform basic http requests. It will unzip gzip responses, and parse json responses. It will log every event the incoming message emits if you set you log level to verbose.
It does not make https requests.
The first feature branch was named narwhal for Not Another Reclusive WHite Asshole's Library, because I’m not white, reclusive, or an ass hole. Or maybe because I am, but this isn’t a library.
This is about an hour’s work, and really ugly. I may refactor it, if I decide I don’t like it more as a piece of modern art, you know, where they hang trash on a wall and worship it.
According to nodejs documentation, the http library accepts these options:
http.request returns and instance of http.clientRequest, which emits the following events
The response event is emitted by http.cientRequest exactly once. It provides an instance of http.IncomingMessage as an argument to listeners of the event. The http.IncomingMessage, in turn, emits aborted and close events, and also provides the following methods and properties: