nom.js

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