app.js

//the most simple http client: 
//http://nodejs.org/api.html#http-client-183

//dependencies
var http = require('http') //http module
  , sys = require('sys'); //some node core utils
  
//setup the request (this is something like curl...)  
var httpclient = http.createClient( 80, 'finance.yahoo.com' )
  , page = "/";
  
//the request
var request = httpclient.request( 'GET', page
  , {'host': 'finance.yahoo.com'}
  , {'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' }
  , {'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5'}
  , {'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip,deflate'}
  , {'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7'}
  , {'Keep-Alive': '115'}
  , {'Connection': 'keep-alive'}
  , {'Referer': 'http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl'}); //the request header we are sending.
request.end();

//listening for the response
request.on('response', function (response) {
  console.log('STATUS: ' + response.statusCode); //print to console
  console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(response.headers));
  response.setEncoding('utf8');
  response.on('data', function (chunk) {
    console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
  });
});