mini-http-request

Library for simplifying making HTTP requests


Keywords
http, mini-module
License
MIT
Install
bower install mini-http-request#0.0.2

Documentation

About

This is mini-module that implements simple Promise based HTTP request API that allows same code to be used in node.js and inside browsers.

Restrictions

This requires window.btoa function exist. That basically mandates at least IE10, Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome 7, Safari 5.0.1 or Opera 10.

Usage

;(function(module) {
    var http = require("mini-http");
    var req = {
        method: "GET",
        hostname: "localhost",
        port: 8080,
        path: "/myPath",
        hash: "myHash",
        query: "prop1=\"val1\"",
        auth: {
            user: "myUser",
            password: "myPassword",
        },
        headers: [{
            "Content-Type": "application/json"
        }]
    };
    http.request(req).then(function (response) {
        // Your code handling successful request
    }, function (reason) {
        // Your code handling failed request
    });

    // There are also get, post, put and delete that
    // define method accordingly
    http.get({ hostname: "localhost" }).then(function (res) {
    }, function (reason) {
    });
    http.post({ hostname: "localhost" }, data).then(function (res) {
    }, function (reason) {
    });
    http.put({ hostname: "localhost" }, data).then(function (res) {
    }, function (reason) {
    });
    http.delete({ hostname: "localhost" }).then(function (res) {
    }, function (reason) {
    });

})(typeof module !== "undefined" ? module : null);