Simply get on NodeJS

index.js

var options = {
			host: this.blackbox.ip,
			port: this.blackbox.port,
			path: '/alive',
			method: 'GET',
			headers: {
				'Accept': 'application/json',
				'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip,deflate,sdch',
				'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8'
			}
		};

		var str = "";
		var req = http.request(options, function (res) {
			res.setEncoding('utf8');
			res.on('data', function (chunk) {
				str += chunk;
			}).on('end', function () {
				var info = JSON.parse(str)[0];
				callback(info);
			});
		}).on('error', function (err) {
			callback(false);
		});
		req.end();