What is difference between NodeJS http and https module?

Question

I am using http module in my project but most of my 'post' requests are blocked by postman. I read it is a ssl issue,after some research i found another module named https.

Here is my current code.

 var http = require('http');

var server = http.createServer(app);

Answer 1

Hei, make sure that the interceptor in Postman is off (it should be in the top, left to the "Sign in" button)

And related to https, as stated in Node.js v5.10.1 Documentation

HTTPS is the HTTP protocol over TLS/SSL. In Node.js this is implemented as a separate module.

I used it once to make requests from my server to other servers over https (port 443).

btw, your code shouldn't work, try this

const http = require('http');
http.createServer( (request, response) => {
   response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
   response.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8124);
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');

and use http://127.0.0.1:8124 in Postman ..hoped it helped

Answer 2

The difference between HTTP and HTTPS is if you need to communicate with the servers over SSL, encrypting the communication using a certificate, you should use HTTPS, otherwise you should use HTTP, for example:

With HTTPS you can do something like that:

var https = require('https');

var options = {
    key : fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'ssl', 'prd', 'cert.key')).toString(),
    cert : fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'ssl', 'prd', 'cert.crt')).toString(),
};

var server = https.createServer(options, app);
server = server.listen(443, function() {
    console.log("Listening " + server.address().port);
});