req-sync

req-sync is Node.js extension that provides syncronous http request.

Installing

You must have libcurl installed in order to compile this extension.

Ubuntu:

• sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

CentOS/redhat:

• sudo yum install libcurl libcurl-devel

Mac:

• brew install libcurl

Window:

• compile the openssl/libcurl
• copy libcurl include floder to node_modules/curl/
• copy libcurl.lib to node_modules/curl/lib/
• copy libcurl.dll/libeay32.dll/ssleay32.dll to %PATH%
• npm install

Using

var rsync = require('req-sync');

//full options.
var ret=rsync.req({
    method: "POST",
    url: "http://xxxx.com/api/",
    args: {
        arg1: "",
    },// or using custom body
    headers: {}, 
    timeout:30000,
    timeout_c:30000,
    cookie: true,//using cookie
    json: true //parse return as json.
});
console.log(ret);
//
//post file
rsync.req({
    method: "POST",
    url: "http://localhost:8334/u",
    cookie: true,
    margs: {
        "aa": "bb",
    },
    mfs: {
        "file": "test/run.js",
    },
    headers: [
        "aaa:bbb"
    ],
});
//
//post body
rsync.req({
    method: "POST",
    url: "http://localhost:8334/b",
    cookie: true,
    body: '{"val":"OK"}',
});
//
//post/get
rsync.post("http://www.com/api",{},true);
rsync.get("http://www.com/api",true);

Function

• req(options) see Options
• get(url,[json]) send get request.
• post(url,[args],[json]) send post request.

Options

• method: POST/GET.
• url: target URL address.
• args: the request arguments.
• headers: the http headers.
• timeout: the http timeout.
• timeout_c: the connection timeout.
• cookie: if setting true, it will using the .cookie as cookie file name. or setting cookie file paht like /tmp/a.cookie.
• json:whether parse return string as json to javascript object.
• body: the request body,if it is not empty,the args will be ignore when using POST method.
• marg: the multipart fileds.
• mfs: the multipart files.

Return

• err: the error message,when error occur.
• length: the reponse content length.
• headers: the response headers.
• data: the reponse data.
• status: the http status code.

Other

• enable global cookie:require('req-sync').cookie=".cookie"