getting the contents of a url as a string using node

get.js

var getURL = function (url, cb) {
    var http = require("http");

    var result = "",
        finished = false;

    var finishedHandler = function (err, val) {
        if (!finished) {
            finished = true;
            cb(err, val);
        }
    };

    var responseHandler = function (res) {
        if (res.statusCode !== 200) {
            finishedHandler(new Error("HTTP request status code " + res.statusCode));
            res.resume();
            return;
        }

        res.on("readable", function () {
            var b = res.read();
            result += b.toString();
        });
        res.on("end", function() {
            finishedHandler(null, result);
        });
        res.on("error", function(err) {
            finishedHandler(err);
        });
    };

    var req = http.get(url, responseHandler);
    req.on("error", finishedHandler);
};

// "path" should be an absolute path on the filesystem, otherwise
// who knows what it will be relative to in CEP land
var downloadURLToFile = function (url, path, cb) {
    var http = require("http"),
        fs = require("fs");

    var finished = false;

    var finishedHandler = function (err) {
        if (!finished) {
            finished = true;
            cb(err);
        }
    };

    var responseHandler = function (res) {
        if (res.statusCode !== 200) {
            finishedHandler(new Error("HTTP request status code " + res.statusCode));
            res.resume();
            return;
        }

        var ws = fs.createWriteStream(path);
        ws.on("error", function (err) {
            ws.end();
            finishedHandler(err);
        });

        res.on("error", function (err) {
            ws.end();
            finishedHandler(err);
        });

        res.pipe(ws);
        ws.on("finish", finishedHandler);
    };

    var req = http.get(url, responseHandler);
    req.on("error", finishedHandler);

};

getURL("http://localhost:8080/", function (err, text) {
    if (err) {
        console.log("There was an error getting the URL: " + err);
    } else {
        console.log(text);
    }
});


var movieURL = "http://localhost:8080/foo.m4a";
var localPath = "/Users/jbrandt/Desktop/foo.m4a";
downloadURLToFile(movieURL, localPath, function (err, text) {
    if (err) {
        console.log("There was an error downloading the URL: " + err);
    } else {
        console.log("done downloading!");
    }
});