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A wrapper that chooses http or https for requests
var hh = require('http-https')
var req = hh.request('http://example.com/bar')
var secureReq = hh.request('https://secure.example.com/foo')
// or with a parsed object...
var opt = url.parse(someUrlMaybeHttpMaybeHttps)
opt.headers = {
'user-agent': 'flergy mc flerg'
}
opt.method = 'HEAD'
var req = hh.request(opt, function (res) {
console.log('got response!', res.statusCode, res.headers)
})
req.end()
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A wrapper that chooses http or https for requests
The npm package http-https receives a total of 300,270 weekly downloads. As such, http-https popularity was classified as popular.
We found that http-https demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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