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Chapter05/making-an-http-post-request/buffering-a-request/index.js

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+'use strict'
+
+const http = require('http')
+const assert = require('assert')
+const url = 'http://www.davidmarkclements.com/ncb3/some.json'
+
+http.get(url, (res) => {
+  const size = parseInt(res.headers['content-length'], 10)
+  const buffer = Buffer.allocUnsafe(size)
+  var index = 0
+  res.on('data', (chunk) => {
+    chunk.copy(buffer, index)
+    index += chunk.length
+  })
+  res.on('end', () => {
+    assert.equal(size, buffer.length)
+    console.log('GUID:', JSON.parse(buffer).guid)
+  })
+})