request-uniform

A uniform API for http[s] request.

Node

var RequestUniform = require("request-uniform/node");
// A path to a unix socket can also be passed (faster)
var request = RequestUniform("http://www.example.com/foo");
var method = "GET";
var path = "/bar";
var headers = {};
var body = "";
// Asynchronous http request with require("http").request
request(method, path, headers, body, function (error, status, headers, body) { ... });
// Synchronous http request by spawing curl with require("child_process").spawnSync
var [error, status, headers, body] = request(method, path, headers, body);

Alternatively, the response can be manually entered by the user through a synchronous readline with require("request-uniform/node-readline-sync").

Browser

Through browserify, this module provides the same interface for the browser:

var RequestUniform = require("request-uniform/browser");
var request = RequestUniform("http://www.example.com/foo");
// Asynchronous http request with XMLHttpRequest's aync flag set to true
request("GET", "/bar", {}, "", function (error, status, headers, body) { ... });
// Synchronous http request with XMLHttpRequest's aync flag set to false
var [error, status, headers, body] = request("GET", "/bar", {}, "");

Alternatively, the response can be manually entered by the user through a synchronous prompt dialog with require("browser/prompt").