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

I suggest to use request module for that, it support wide range functionalities including HTTP Basic Authentication.

var username = 'username',
    password = 'password',
    url = 'http://' + username + ':' + password + '@some.server.com';

request({url: url}, function (error, response, body) {
   // Do more stuff with 'body' here
});