Difference between http.get and http.request

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Tobbe

I had problems doing a POST, so I started playing around with http.request and noticed that it behaves differently from http.get. Why is that?

This is the code I have

var http = require('http');

function callback(response) {
  var str = '';

  response.on('data', function (chunk) {
    str += chunk;
  });

  response.on('close', function () {
    console.log(str);
  });
}

function getDataUsingGet() {
  http.get('http://example.com', callback);
}

function getDataUsingRequest() {
  var options = {
    host: 'example.com',
    method: 'get'
  };

  http.request(options, callback).end();
}

Calling getDataUsingGet() I get the same reply as I do when I visit using my web browser. But calling getDataUsingRequest() I get

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>501 - Not Implemented</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>501 - Not Implemented</h1>
</body>
</html>

And changing method: 'get' to method: 'GET' the reply I receive is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>400 - Bad Request</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>400 - Bad Request</h1>
</body>
</html>

How can I use http.request to get the same page as http.get() gets me? Why do I get different responses when using 'get' and 'GET'?

Difference between http.get and http.request

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