cURL equivalent in Node.js?

Question

I\'m looking to use information from an HTTP request using Node.js (i.e. call a remote web service and echo the response to the client).

In PHP I would have used cUR

Answer 1

I ended up using the grunt-shell library.

Here is my source gist for my fully implemented Grunt task for anyone else thinking about working with the EdgeCast API. You'll find in my example that I use a grunt-shell to execute the curl command which purges the CDN.

This was that I ended up with after spending hours trying to get an HTTP request to work within Node. I was able to get one working in Ruby and Python, but did not meet the requirements of this project.