Chapter 4: initial recipe samples

Chapter04/making-requests/requests.js

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+const https = require('https')
+
+// http.get('http://example.com', (res) => res.pipe(process.stdout))
+
+const payload = `{
+    "name": "Beth",
+    "job": "Software Engineer"
+  }`
+
+const opts = {
+    method: 'POST',
+    hostname: 'postman-echo.com',
+    path: '/post',
+    headers: {
+        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+        'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(payload)
+    }
+}
+
+const req = https.request(opts, (res) => {
+    process.stdout.write('Status Code: ' + res.statusCode + '\n')
+    process.stdout.write('Body: ')
+    res.pipe(process.stdout)
+})
+
+req.on('error', (err) => console.error('Error: ', err))
+
+req.end(payload)