Setting up SSL with node.js

I bought an SSL certificate at GoDaddy and I'm using the following node.js server to attempt to set it up:

var https = require('https'),      // module for https
    fs =    require('fs');         // required to read certs and keys

var options = {
    key: fs.readFileSync('../../ssl/example.com.key'),
    cert: fs.readFileSync('../../ssl/example.com.crt'),
    ca: fs.readFileSync('../../ssl/gd_bundle.crt'),
    requestCert:        true,
    rejectUnauthorized: false
};

https.createServer(options, function (req, res) {
    if (req.client.authorized) {
        res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "application/json"});
        res.end('{"status":"approved"}');
    } else {
        res.writeHead(401, {"Content-Type": "application/json"});
        res.end('{"status":"denied"}');
    }
}).listen(443);

After running the server, I attempted to visit the website at https://example.com and I just get

{"status":"denied"}

I guess this is working properly since I'm getting a response, but I think my understanding of how SSL works is wrong. I thought the browser gets the certificate from the server, which then authenticates it against root certs, i.e. from GoDaddy. so shouldn't i get

{"status":"approved"}

just simply visiting https://example.com ?

So I guess my question is, how do I visit https://example.com and get {"status":"approved"}?

Thanks!