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auth-request

Node request util that supports request with basic or digest authentication.

Installation

$ npm install auth-request

Features

Support normal request, basic auth request, and digest auth request.
Support both http and https

Quick Start

var request = require('auth-request');
var options = {
    scheme: 'http',
    hostname: 'localhost',
    port: 8080,
    path: '/path/to/resource',
    method: 'POST',
    data: { message: 'hello world' },
    username: 'leo',
    password: 'xxx'
};
request(options, function (err, result) {
    if (err) return console.log(err);
    console.log(result);
});

API

var request = require('auth-request');

request(options, callback)

This is the main function used to make http request, accepts an option and a callback.

options

A json object that may contain following fields.

scheme

URL resource scheme, support http or https, defaults to http.

hostname

Request host, defaults to 'localhost'.

port

Request port, defaults to 80 when http, or 443 when https.

path

Request path, defaults to '/'.

method

Request method, defaults to 'GET'.

headers

Custom headers, optional, which will be appended to request headers.

data

Request data, if provided, data will be JSON-stringified to the request body, and content type will be set to 'application/json'.

username

Basic auth or digest auth username

password

Basic auth or digest auth password

callback(err, result)

Request callback function, called with error and result. The result object is of this structure { status: 200, data: ... }.

Test

There is a test server which you can use to test the correctness of an auth implementation.

TODO

Support digest auth with full coverage.
Refine code structure to support extension.
Refine test cases.

Usage no npm install needed!