Send HTTP Requests To a Server with Node.js

It’s actually incredibly easy to send http/https requests to servers with Node.js. Node contains a bunch of native function for that, making it very easy to send REST requests. I’m going to demonstrate with Node’s own http.request(options[, callback]) method.

HTTP/HTTPS requests in a very brief glance

The four most common HTTP requests are GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. The type of request determines the type of operation the request sender would like the server to perform.

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