nom.js

var http = require("http"),
      sys = require("sys");
function read(callback) {
    connection = http.createClient(8000, "127.0.0.1");
      var request = connection.request("/index");
      request.finish(function (response) {
        var responseBody = "";  
        response.setBodyEncoding("utf8");
        response.addListener("body", function(chunk) {
          responseBody += chunk;
        });
        response.addListener("complete", function() {
          callback(responseBody);
        })
      });
}
function report(a) { 
  sys.puts(a);
}
read(report);