How to make http put request with zip file in nodejs

Question

I want to make a http PUT request with zip file in binary to a web api and get response with http status code.

How to read the file and PUT it with binary ?

Thank you for your help!!

Answer 1

You can start with this:

var http = require('http');
var fs   = require('fs');

var req = http.request({
  hostname : HOSTNAME,
  port     : PORT,
  path     : UPLOAD_PATH,
  method   : 'PUT',
});

fs.createReadStream('somefile.zip').pipe(req);

You may need to perform some other actions, like proper error handling, setting Content-Type headers, etc.

Answer 2

Using request-promise (based on bluebird)

const fs = require('fs');
const request = require('request-promise');

const options = {
    method: 'PUT',
    url: 'dest url',
    qs: {key: 'value'}, // optional 
    headers: {
        'content-type': 'application/octet-stream'
    }
};

fs.createReadStream(zipFilePath).pipe(request(options)).then(body =>{
        console.log(body);
    })
    .catch(err => {
        console.log(err);
    });

Answer 3

Check that answer.

The only difference would be, you are using .put() instead on .post().