HTTPS request in NodeJS

Question

HTTPS request in NodeJS

I am trying to write a NodeJS app which will talk to the OpenShift REST API using the request method in the https package. Here is the code I have written

var https = require('https');

var options = {
  host: 'openshift.redhat.com',
  port: 443,
  path: '/broker/rest/api',
  method: 'GET'
};

var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
  console.log(res.statusCode);
  res.on('data', function(d) {
    process.stdout.write(d);
  });
});
req.end();

req.on('error', function(e) {
  console.error(e);
});

But this is giving me an error (status code 500 is returned). When I try to do the same thing using curl on the command line,

curl -k -X GET https://openshift.redhat.com/broker/rest/api

I get the correct response from the server.

Am I doing something wrong in the code??

node.js
rest
https
openshift

Answer 1

Comparing what headers curl and node sent, i found that adding:

headers: {
    accept: '*/*'
}

to options fixed it.

To see which headers curl sends, you can use the -v argument.
curl -vIX GET https://openshift.redhat.com/broker/rest/api

In node, just console.log(req._headers) after req.end().

Quick tip: You can use https.get(), instead of https.request(). It will set method to GET, and calls req.end() for you.