Check out the request module.
It’s more full featured than node’s built-in http client.
var request = require('request');
var propertiesObject = { field1:'test1', field2:'test2' };
request({url:url, qs:propertiesObject}, function(err, response, body) {
if(err) { console.log(err); return; }
console.log("Get response: " + response.statusCode);
});