Steps to send a https request to a rest service in Node js

Question

What are the steps to send a https request in node js to a rest service? I have an api exposed like (Original link not working...)

How to pass the request and what are the options I need to give for this API like host, port, path and method?

Answer 1

just use the core https module with the https.request function. Example for a POST request (GET would be similar):

var https = require('https');  var options = {   host: 'www.google.com',   port: 443,   path: '/upload',   method: 'POST' };  var req = https.request(options, function(res) {   console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);   console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));   res.setEncoding('utf8');   res.on('data', function (chunk) {     console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);   }); });  req.on('error', function(e) {   console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message); });  // write data to request body req.write('data\n'); req.write('data\n'); req.end();