test.js

var sys = require('sys');
var http = require('http');
var url_mod = require('url');

var url = process.ARGV[2];
var parsed_url = url_mod.parse(url);

var client = http.createClient(parsed_url.port || 80, parsed_url.hostname);

client.setTimeout(1000);

var timeoutCount = 0;
var lastDate = (new Date()).getTime();

client.addListener('error', function(e) {
    sys.debug('Error: ' + e);
});
client.addListener('timeout', function(e) {
    var now = (new Date()).getTime();
    var diff = now - lastDate;
    lastDate = now;

    sys.debug('[' + diff + '] Timeout: ' + e);
    timeoutCount += 1;

    if (timeoutCount >= 4) {
	sys.debug("Closing...");
	client.forceClose();
    }
});

var req = client.request('GET', parsed_url.pathname, {host: parsed_url.host});
req.addListener('response', function (response) {
    var body = '';
    response.setBodyEncoding("utf8");
    response.addListener("data", function (chunk) {
	body += chunk;
    });
    response.addListener('end', function() {
	sys.puts("STATUS: " + response.statusCode);
	sys.puts("HEADERS: " + JSON.stringify(response.headers));
	sys.puts("BODY: " + body);
    });
});
req.close();