active-client

Active-Client

This library exists mainly to let HTTP clients treat various error codes correctly and not bundle them under callbacks for success, failure etc. With active-client, you can write better clients such as the one below.

var client = require('active-client');
client.request({
  method: 'POST',
  uri: 'http://www.example.org/something,
  body: 'param1=value&param2=value2',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type' : 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  },
  '401' : function(res) {
    // Not authorized - do something about it 
     ...
  },
  '4xx' : function(res) {
    // Other 4xx errors
  },
  '5xx' : function(res) {
    // Broken server?
    ...
  },
  '200' : function(res) {
    // Handle 'on', 'data', 'end' etc on the res object as you would do with nodejs
    res.on('data', function(chunk) { 
      ...
    });
    res.on('end', function() {
      ...
    });
  }
});

That's all!

Use npm install active-client to get active-client.