Where is body in a nodejs http.get response?

Question

I'm reading the docs at http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.0/api/http.html#http.request, but for some reason, I can't seem to to actually find the body/data attribute on the returned, finished response object.

> var res = http.get({host:'www.somesite.com', path:'/'})  > res.finished true  > res._hasBody true 

It's finished (http.get does that for you), so it should have some kind of content. But there's no body, no data, and I can't read from it. Where is the body hiding?

Answer 1

http.request docs contains example how to receive body of the response through handling data event:

var options = {   host: 'www.google.com',   port: 80,   path: '/upload',   method: 'POST' };  var req = http.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(); 

http.get does the same thing as http.request except it calls req.end() automatically.

var options = {   host: 'www.google.com',   port: 80,   path: '/index.html' };  http.get(options, function(res) {   console.log("Got response: " + res.statusCode);    res.on("data", function(chunk) {     console.log("BODY: " + chunk);   }); }).on('error', function(e) {   console.log("Got error: " + e.message); }); 

Answer 2

I also want to add that the http.ClientResponse returned by http.get() has an end event, so here is another way that I receive the body response:

var options = {   host: 'www.google.com',   port: 80,   path: '/index.html' };  http.get(options, function(res) {   var body = '';   res.on('data', function(chunk) {     body += chunk;   });   res.on('end', function() {     console.log(body);   }); }).on('error', function(e) {   console.log("Got error: " + e.message); });