Make a request to an http server

test_request.js

// Call this script with a http URL as the single argument:
//     node test_request.js http://www.google.com

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

parsed = url.parse(process.argv[2]);

var opts = {
    port: 80,
    host: parsed.hostname,
    path: parsed.pathname,
    method: 'GET'
};

var req = http.request(opts, function (res) {
    console.log();
    console.log('got callback...');

    var buff = '';
    res.setEncoding('utf8');

    res.on('end', function () {
        console.log();
        console.log('body length:', buff.length);
        console.log();
        console.log('END');
        console.log();
    });

    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
        buff += chunk;
    });

    console.log();
    console.log(res.headers);
});

req.end();