Sending data through POST request from a node js server to a node js server

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I m trying to send data through a POST request from a node js server to another node js server  What I do in the  client  node js is the following   var options         host   my url       port  80      path    login       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      This chunk is taken more or less from the node js website so it should be correct  The only thing I don t see is how to include username and password in the options variable to actually login  This is how I deal with the data in the server node js  I use express    app post   login   function req  res       var user           user username   req body username      user password   req body password                    How can I add those username and password fields to the options variable to have it logged in   Thanks

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You can also use Requestify  a really cool and very simple HTTP client I wrote for nodeJS   it supports caching   Just do the following for executing a POST request   var requestify   require  requestify     requestify post  http   example com         hello   world      then function response           Get the response body  JSON parsed or jQuery object for XMLs      response getBody

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Posting data is a matter of sending a query string  just like the way you would send it with an URL after the    as the request body    This requires Content-Type and Content-Length headers  so the receiving server knows how to interpret the incoming data       var querystring   require  querystring    var http   require  http     var data   querystring stringify         username  yourUsernameValue        password  yourPasswordValue          var options         host   my url       port  80      path    login       method   POST       headers             Content-Type    application x-www-form-urlencoded            Content-Length   Buffer byteLength data            var req   http request options  function res        res setEncoding  utf8        res on  data   function  chunk            console log  body      chunk                req write data   req end            Sending data requires the Content-Type header to be set correctly  i e  application x-www-form-urlencoded for the traditional format that a standard  HTML form would use   It s easy to send JSON  application json  in exactly the same manner  just JSON stringify   the data beforehand    URL-encoded data supports one level of structure  i e  key and value   JSON is useful when it comes to exchanging data that has a nested structure   The bottom line is  The server must be able to interpret the content type in question  It could be text plain or anything else  there is no need to convert data if the receiving server understands it as it is    Add a charset parameter  e g  application json  charset Windows-1252  if your data is in an unusual character set  i e  not UTF-8  This can be necessary if you read it from a file  for example

[node.js] Sending data through POST request from a node.js server to a node.js server

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