Getting HTTP headers with Node.js

Question

Is there a built in way to get the headers of a specific address via node.js?

something like,

var headers = getUrlHeaders(\"http://stackoverflow.com\         


        

Answer 1

I had some problems with http.get; so I switched to the lib request:

var request = require('request');

var url = 'http://blog.mynotiz.de/';

var options = {
    url: url,
    method: 'HEAD'
};

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
        if (error) {
            return console.error('upload failed:', error);
        }

        if (response.headers['content-length']) {
            var file_size = response.headers['content-length'];
            console.log(file_size);
        }
    }
);