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

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What are the steps to send a https request in node js to a rest service  I have an api exposed like https   133-70-97-54-43 sample com feedSample Query Status View Query Status Output1 STATUS Joined 20school    How to pass the request and what are the options I need to give for this API like host  port  path and method

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The easiest way is to use the request module   request  https   example com url a b   function  error  response  body      if   error  amp  amp  response statusCode    200        console log body

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Note if you are using https request do not directly use the body from  res on  data      This will fail if you have a large data coming in chunks  So you need to concatenate all the data and then process the response in res on  end   Example -    var options         hostname   www google com       port  443      path    upload       method   POST       headers           Content-Type    application json          Content-Length   Buffer byteLength post data                  change to http for local testing   var req   https request options  function  res        res setEncoding  utf8         var body            res on  data   function  chunk          body   body   chunk               res on  end  function          console log  Body      body         if  res statusCode    200            callback  Api call failed with response code     res statusCode           else           callback null                             req on  error   function  e        console log  Error       e message       callback e               write data to request body   req write post data     req end

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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

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just use the core https module with the https request function  Example for a POST request  GET would be similar    var https   require  https     var options       host   www google com     port  443    path    upload     method   POST      var req   https 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

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