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Request HTTP URLs in a complex world — basicand digest authentication, redirections, cookies, timeout and more.
## Install
```bash$ npm install urllib@2 --save```
## Usage
### callback
```jsvar urllib = require('urllib');
urllib.request('http://cnodejs.org/', function (err, data, res) {  if (err) {    throw err; // you need to handle error  }  console.log(res.statusCode);  console.log(res.headers);  // data is Buffer instance  console.log(data.toString());});```
### Promise
If you've installed [bluebird][bluebird],[bluebird][bluebird] will be used.`urllib` does not install [bluebird][bluebird] for you.
Otherwise, if you're using a node that has native v8 Promises (v0.11.13+),then that will be used.
Otherwise, this library will crash the process and exit,so you might as well install [bluebird][bluebird] as a dependency!
```jsvar urllib = require('urllib');
urllib.request('http://nodejs.org').then(function (result) {  // result: {data: buffer, res: response object}  console.log('status: %s, body size: %d, headers: %j', result.res.statusCode, result.data.length, result.res.headers);}).catch(function (err) {  console.error(err);});```
### co & generator
If you are using [co](https://github.com/visionmedia/co) or [koa](https://github.com/koajs/koa):
```jsvar co = require('co');var urllib = require('urllib');
co(function* () {  var result = yield urllib.requestThunk('http://nodejs.org');  console.log('status: %s, body size: %d, headers: %j',    result.status, result.data.length, result.headers);})();```
## Global `response` event
You should create a urllib instance first.
```jsvar httpclient = require('urllib').create();
httpclient.on('response', function (info) {  error: err,  ctx: args.ctx,  req: {    url: url,    options: options,    size: requestSize,  },  res: res});
httpclient.request('http://nodejs.org', function (err, body) {  console.log('body size: %d', body.length);});```
## API Doc
### Method: `http.request(url[, options][, callback])`
#### Arguments
- **url** String | Object - The URL to request, either a String or a Object that return by [url.parse](http://nodejs.org/api/url.html#url_url_parse_urlstr_parsequerystring_slashesdenotehost).- ***options*** Object - Optional    - ***method*** String - Request method, defaults to `GET`. Could be `GET`, `POST`, `DELETE` or `PUT`. Alias 'type'.    - ***data*** Object - Data to be sent. Will be stringify automatically.    - ***dataAsQueryString*** Boolean - Force convert `data` to query string.    - ***content*** String | [Buffer](http://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html) - Manually set the content of payload. If set, `data` will be ignored.    - ***stream*** [stream.Readable](http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_class_stream_readable) - Stream to be pipe to the remote. If set, `data` and `content` will be ignored.    - ***writeStream*** [stream.Writable](http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_class_stream_writable) - A writable stream to be piped by the response stream. Responding data will be write to this stream and `callback` will be called with `data` set `null` after finished writing.    - ***files*** {Array<ReadStream|Buffer|String> | Object | ReadStream | Buffer | String - The files will send with `multipart/form-data` format, base on `formstream`. If `method` not set, will use `POST` method by default.    - ***consumeWriteStream*** [true] - consume the writeStream, invoke the callback after writeStream close.    - ***contentType*** String - Type of request data. Could be `json` (**Notes**: not use `application/json` here). If it's `json`, will auto set `Content-Type: application/json` header.    - ***nestedQuerystring*** Boolean - urllib default use querystring to stringify form data which don't support nested object, will use [qs](https://github.com/ljharb/qs) instead of querystring to support nested object by set this option to true.    - ***dataType*** String - Type of response data. Could be `text` or `json`. If it's `text`, the `callback`ed `data` would be a String. If it's `json`, the `data` of callback would be a parsed JSON Object and will auto set `Accept: application/json` header. Default `callback`ed `data` would be a `Buffer`.    - **fixJSONCtlChars** Boolean - Fix the control characters (U+0000 through U+001F) before JSON parse response. Default is `false`.    - ***headers*** Object - Request headers.    - ***keepHeaderCase*** Boolean - by default will convert header keys to lowercase    - ***timeout*** Number | Array - Request timeout in milliseconds for connecting phase and response receiving phase. Defaults to `exports.TIMEOUT`, both are 5s. You can use `timeout: 5000` to tell urllib use same timeout on two phase or set them seperately such as `timeout: [3000, 5000]`, which will set connecting timeout to 3s and response 5s.    - ***auth*** String - `username:password` used in HTTP Basic Authorization.    - ***digestAuth*** String - `username:password` used in HTTP [Digest Authorization](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication).    - ***agent*** [http.Agent](http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_class_http_agent) - HTTP Agent object.      Set `false` if you does not use agent.    - ***httpsAgent*** [https.Agent](http://nodejs.org/api/https.html#https_class_https_agent) - HTTPS Agent object.      Set `false` if you does not use agent.    - ***ca*** String | Buffer | Array - An array of strings or Buffers of trusted certificates.      If this is omitted several well known "root" CAs will be used, like VeriSign.      These are used to authorize connections.      **Notes**: This is necessary only if the server uses the self-signed certificate    - ***rejectUnauthorized*** Boolean - If true, the server certificate is verified against the list of supplied CAs.      An 'error' event is emitted if verification fails. Default: true.    - ***pfx*** String | Buffer - A string or Buffer containing the private key,      certificate and CA certs of the server in PFX or PKCS12 format.    - ***key*** String | Buffer - A string or Buffer containing the private key of the client in PEM format.      **Notes**: This is necessary only if using the client certificate authentication    - ***cert*** String | Buffer - A string or Buffer containing the certificate key of the client in PEM format.      **Notes**: This is necessary only if using the client certificate authentication    - ***passphrase*** String - A string of passphrase for the private key or pfx.    - ***ciphers*** String - A string describing the ciphers to use or exclude.    - ***secureProtocol*** String - The SSL method to use, e.g. SSLv3_method to force SSL version 3.    - ***followRedirect*** Boolean - follow HTTP 3xx responses as redirects. defaults to false.    - ***maxRedirects*** Number - The maximum number of redirects to follow, defaults to 10.    - ***formatRedirectUrl*** Function - Format the redirect url by your self. Default is `url.resolve(from, to)`.    - ***beforeRequest*** Function - Before request hook, you can change every thing here.    - ***streaming*** Boolean - let you get the `res` object when request  connected, default `false`. alias `customResponse`    - ***gzip*** Boolean - Accept gzip response content and auto decode it, default is `false`.    - ***timing*** Boolean - Enable timing or not, default is `false`.    - ***enableProxy*** Boolean - Enable proxy request, default is `false`.    - ***proxy*** String | Object - proxy agent uri or options, default is `null`.    - ***lookup*** Function - Custom DNS lookup function, default is `dns.lookup`. Require node >= 4.0.0(for http protocol) and node >=8(for https protocol)    - ***checkAddress*** Function: optional, check request address to protect from SSRF and similar attacks. It receive tow arguments(`ip` and `family`) and should return true or false to identified the address is legal or not. It rely on `lookup` and have the same version requirement.    - ***trace*** Boolean - Enable capture stack include call site of library entrance, default is `false`.    - ***socketPath*** String - optional Unix Domain Socket. (Refer to [Node.js Document](https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v14.x/docs/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback))- ***callback(err, data, res)*** Function - Optional callback.    - **err** Error - Would be `null` if no error accured.    - **data** Buffer | Object - The data responsed. Would be a Buffer if `dataType` is set to `text` or an JSON parsed into Object if it's set to `json`.    - **res** [http.IncomingMessage](http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_incomingmessage) - The response.
#### Returns
[http.ClientRequest](http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_class_http_clientrequest) - The request.
Calling `.abort()` method of the request stream can cancel the request.
#### Options: `options.data`
When making a request:
```jsurllib.request('http://example.com', {  method: 'GET',  data: {    'a': 'hello',    'b': 'world'  }});```
For `GET` request, `data` will be stringify to query string, e.g. `http://example.com/?a=hello&b=world`.
For others like `POST`, `PATCH` or `PUT` request,in defaults, the `data` will be stringify into `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` formatif `Content-Type` header is not set.
If `Content-type` is `application/json`, the `data` will be `JSON.stringify` to JSON data format.
#### Options: `options.content`
`options.content` is useful when you wish to construct the request body by yourself,for example making a `Content-Type: application/json` request.
Notes that if you want to send a JSON body, you should stringify it yourself:
```jsurllib.request('http://example.com', {  method: 'POST',  headers: {    'Content-Type': 'application/json'  },  content: JSON.stringify({    a: 'hello',    b: 'world'  })});```
It would make a HTTP request like:
```httpPOST / HTTP/1.1Host: example.comContent-Type: application/json
{  "a": "hello",  "b": "world"}```
This exmaple can use `options.data` with `application/json` content type:
```jsurllib.request('http://example.com', {  method: 'POST',  headers: {    'Content-Type': 'application/json'  },  data: {    a: 'hello',    b: 'world'  }});```
#### Options: `options.files`
Upload a file with a `hello` field.
```jsvar urllib = request('urllib');
var req = urllib.request('http://my.server.com/upload', {  files: __filename,  data: {    hello: 'hello urllib',  },}, function (err, data, res) {  // upload finished});```
Upload multi files with a `hello` field.
```jsvar urllib = request('urllib');
var req = urllib.request('http://my.server.com/upload', {  files: [    __filename,    fs.createReadStream(__filename),    Buffer.from('mock file content'),  ],  data: {    hello: 'hello urllib with multi files',  },}, function (err, data, res) {  // upload finished});```
Custom file field name with `uploadfile`.
```jsvar urllib = request('urllib');
var req = urllib.request('http://my.server.com/upload', {  files: {    uploadfile: __filename,  },}, function (err, data, res) {  // upload finished});```
#### Options: `options.stream`
Uploads a file with [formstream](https://github.com/node-modules/formstream):
```jsvar urllib = require('urllib');var formstream = require('formstream');
var form = formstream();form.file('file', __filename);form.field('hello', '你好urllib');
var req = urllib.request('http://my.server.com/upload', {  method: 'POST',  headers: form.headers(),  stream: form}, function (err, data, res) {  // upload finished});```
### Response Object
Response is normal object, it contains:
* `status` or `statusCode`: response status code.  * `-1` meaning some network error like `ENOTFOUND`  * `-2` meaning ConnectionTimeoutError* `statusMessage`: response status message.* `headers`: response http headers, default is `{}`* `size`: response size* `aborted`: response was aborted or not* `rt`: total request and response time in ms.* `timing`: timing object if timing enable.* `remoteAddress`: http server ip address* `remotePort`: http server ip port* `socketHandledRequests`: socket already handled request count* `socketHandledResponses`: socket already handled response count
#### Response: `res.aborted`
If the underlaying connection was terminated before `response.end()` was called,`res.aborted` should be `true`.
```jsrequire('http').createServer(function (req, res) {  req.resume();  req.on('end', function () {    res.write('foo haha\n');    setTimeout(function () {      res.write('foo haha 2');      setTimeout(function () {        res.socket.end();      }, 300);    }, 200);    return;  });}).listen(1984);
urllib.request('http://127.0.0.1:1984/socket.end', function (err, data, res) {  data.toString().should.equal('foo haha\nfoo haha 2');  should.ok(res.aborted);  done();});```
### HttpClient2
HttpClient2 is a new instance for future. request method only return a promise, compatible with `async/await` and generator in co.
#### Options
options extends from urllib, besides below
- ***retry*** Number - a retry count, when get an error, it will request again until reach the retry count.- ***retryDelay*** Number - wait a delay(ms) between retries.- ***isRetry*** Function - determine whether retry, a response object as the first argument. it will retry when status >= 500 by default. Request error is not included.
#### Warning
It's not supported by using retry and writeStream, because the retry request can't stop the stream which is consuming.
## Proxy
Support both `http` and `https` protocol.
**Notice: Only support on Node.js >= 4.0.0**
### Programming
```jsurllib.request('https://twitter.com/', {  enableProxy: true,  proxy: 'http://localhost:8008',}, (err, data, res) => {  console.log(res.status, res.headers);});```
### System environment variable
- http
```bashHTTP_PROXY=http://localhost:8008http_proxy=http://localhost:8008```
- https
```bashHTTP_PROXY=http://localhost:8008http_proxy=http://localhost:8008HTTPS_PROXY=https://localhost:8008https_proxy=https://localhost:8008```
```bash$ http_proxy=http://localhost:8008 node index.js```
### Trace
If set trace true, error stack will contains full call stack, like```Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:11    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1113:14)    --------------------    at ~/workspace/urllib/lib/urllib.js:150:13    at new Promise (<anonymous>)    at Object.request (~/workspace/urllib/lib/urllib.js:149:10)    at Context.<anonymous> (~/workspace/urllib/test/urllib_promise.test.js:49:19)    ....```
When open the trace, urllib may have poor perfomance, please consider carefully.
## TODO
* [ ] Support component* [ ] Browser env use Ajax* [√] Support Proxy* [√] Upload file like form upload* [√] Auto redirect handle* [√] https & self-signed certificate* [√] Connection timeout & Response timeout* [√] Support `Accept-Encoding=gzip` by `options.gzip = true`* [√] Support [Digest access authentication](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication)
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