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Expand Up @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Another extremely common programming task is making an HTTP request to a web ser

As an example, we are going to preform a GET request to [www.random.org/integers/?num=1&min=1&max=10&col=1&base=10&format=plain&rnd=new](www.random.org/integers/?num=1&min=1&max=10&col=1&base=10&format=plain&rnd=new) (which returns a random integer between 1 and 10) and print the result to the console.

var http = require('http');
var https = require('https');

//The url we want is: 'www.random.org/integers/?num=1&min=1&max=10&col=1&base=10&format=plain&rnd=new'
var options = {
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callback = function(response) {
var str = '';

//another chunk of data has been recieved, so append it to `str`
//another chunk of data has been received, so append it to `str`
response.on('data', function (chunk) {
str += chunk;
});

//the whole response has been recieved, so we just print it out here
//the whole response has been received, so we just print it out here
response.on('end', function () {
console.log(str);
});
}

http.request(options, callback).end();
https.request(options, callback).end();


Making a POST request is just as easy. We will make a POST request to `www.nodejitsu.com:1337` which is running a server that will echo back what we post. The code for making a POST request is almost identical to making a GET request, just a few simple modifications:
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