Where is body in a nodejs http.get response?
http.request docs contains example how to receive body of the response through handling data
event:
var options = {
host: 'www.google.com',
port: 80,
path: '/upload',
method: 'POST'
};
var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
res.setEncoding('utf8');
res.on('data', function (chunk) {
console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
});
});
req.on('error', function(e) {
console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);
});
// write data to request body
req.write('data\n');
req.write('data\n');
req.end();
http.get does the same thing as http.request except it calls req.end()
automatically.
var options = {
host: 'www.google.com',
port: 80,
path: '/index.html'
};
http.get(options, function(res) {
console.log("Got response: " + res.statusCode);
res.on("data", function(chunk) {
console.log("BODY: " + chunk);
});
}).on('error', function(e) {
console.log("Got error: " + e.message);
});
I also want to add that the http.ClientResponse
returned by http.get()
has an end
event, so here is another way that I receive the body response:
var options = {
host: 'www.google.com',
port: 80,
path: '/index.html'
};
http.get(options, function(res) {
var body = '';
res.on('data', function(chunk) {
body += chunk;
});
res.on('end', function() {
console.log(body);
});
}).on('error', function(e) {
console.log("Got error: " + e.message);
});