web client make with custom module using node.js

make_request.js


var http = require('http');
exports.makeRequest = function(message){
    var options = {
        host: 'localhost', port: 8080, path: '/', method: 'post'
    };

    callback = function(response){
        var str = '';

        //another chunk of data has been recieved, 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
        response.on('end', function(){
            console.log(str);
        });
    };

    var request = http.request(options, callback);
    request.write(message);
    request.end();
};


usage


var mr = require('./make_request.js');
mr.makeRequest("GET_HTML");
//client is request.write();