Steps to send a https request to a rest service in Node js

The easiest way is to use the request module.

request('https://example.com/url?a=b', function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    console.log(body);
  }
});

just use the core http module with the http.request function. Example for a POST request (GET would be similar):

var http = require('http');

var options = {
  host: 'www.google.com',
  port: 80,
  path: '/upload',
  method: 'POST'
};

var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
  console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
  console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  res.on('data', function (chunk) {
    console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
  });
});

req.on('error', function(e) {
  console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);
});

// write data to request body
req.write('data\n');
req.write('data\n');
req.end();

You can use superagent and node's url module do build up a request like so:

var request = require('superagent');
var url = require('url');

var urlObj = {
  protocol: 'https',
  host: '133-70-97-54-43.sample.com',
  pathname: '/feedSample/Query_Status_View/Query_Status/Output1'
};

request
  .get(url.format(urlObj))
  .query({'STATUS': 'Joined school'})
  .end(function(res) {
    if (res.ok) {
      console.log(res.body);
    }
  });

Using the request module solved the issue.

// Include the request library for Node.js   
var request = require('request');
//  Basic Authentication credentials   
var username = "vinod"; 
var password = "12345";
var authenticationHeader = "Basic " + new Buffer(username + ":" + password).toString("base64");
request(   
{
url : "https://133-70-97-54-43.sample.com/feedSample/Query_Status_View/Query_Status/Output1?STATUS=Joined%20school",
headers : { "Authorization" : authenticationHeader }  
},
 function (error, response, body) {
 console.log(body); }  );