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Created July 26, 2011 03:25
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Simple HTTP Request in NodeJS
getRequest: (callback) ->
options = {
host: config.host or 'yourserver'
port: config.port or 80
path: config.path or '/api/'
method: config.method or 'GET'
tmp = [] # Russ at the NYC NodeJS Meetup said array push is faster
http.request _options, (res) ->
res.setEncoding 'utf8'
res.on 'data', (chunk) ->
tmp.push chunk # Throw the chunk into the array
res.on 'end', (e) ->
body = tmp.join('')
callback body # Just spit back the body, no headers!
.end()
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aj07mm commented Jan 15, 2016

bad, coffeescript sucks

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