HTTP Client based on NodeJS: How to authenticate a request?

Question

This is the code I have to make a simple GET request:

var options = {
    host: \'localhost\',
    port: 8000,
    path: \'/restricted\'
};

request = http.g         


        

Answer 1

In newer version you can also just add auth parameter (in format username:password, no encoding) to your options:

var options = {
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 8000,
    path: '/restricted',
    auth: username + ':' + password
};

request = http.get(options, function(res){
    //...
});

(NOTE: tested on v0.10.3)