MyRequest

var Request = require('request/request.js');  // IMPORTANT - specify request.js, don't get index.js!!!
var querystring = require('querystring');

MyRequest.prototype = Object.create(Request.prototype);
MyRequest.prototype.constructor = MyRequest;

function MyRequest(options, callbackfn) {
  "use strict";
  if (callbackfn)
    options.callback = callbackfn;
  options.method = options.method || 'POST';
  Request.prototype.constructor.call(this, options);
}

MyRequest.prototype.form = function (form) {
  "use strict";
  if (form) {
    this.setHeader('content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8');
    this.body = querystring.stringify(form).toString('utf8');
    return this;
  }
    
  else
    return Request.prototype.form.apply(this, arguments);
};


module.exports = MyRequest;

The standard npm Request module formats multiple selectable form data as follows: foo[0]=value0&foo[1]=value1

If, instead, you want foo=value0&foo=value1 this little subclass will do the trick. Note: you cannot use the lowercase factory-like methods request.get(), request.post()with this class. You must simply go

var ignored = new MyRequest(options);

For now, I'm not doing any tricky multiple varargs stuff, just pass in an options object.