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Where is the body in a nodejs http.get response?

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http.request docs contains example how to receive body of the response through handling data event: var options = { host: ‘www.google.com’, port: 80, path: ‘/upload’, method: ‘POST’ }; var req = http.request(options, function(res) { console.log(‘STATUS: ‘ + res.statusCode); console.log(‘HEADERS: ‘ + JSON.stringify(res.headers)); res.setEncoding(‘utf8’); res.on(‘data’, function (chunk) { console.log(‘BODY: ‘ + chunk); }); }); req.on(‘error’, function(e) … Read more

Using plus sign in custom internet media types (MIME types)

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The procedure for registering new suffixes is now defined in http://trac.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs-14#section-6. “+json” will be defined in a separate document; right now: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-suffix-regs-02#section-3.1 And no, you are not supposed to have multiple subtypes there.

Is HTTP status code 426 Upgrade Required only meant signal an upgrade to a secure channel is required?

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Quoting one of my previous answers: HTTP Upgrade is used to indicate a preference or requirement to switch to a different version of HTTP or to another protocol, if possible: The Upgrade general-header allows the client to specify what additional communication protocols it supports and would like to use if the server finds it appropriate … Read more

How do TCP/IP and HTTP work together?

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The network layers use abstraction and encapsulation. The lower layers encapsulate the higher layers. The Application layer can have its own protocols, e.g. HTTP. HTTP communicates with HTTP on the target device, and it is a protocol that transfers the application data (HTML). The Transport layer (layer 4) encapsulates the application datagrams, and it communicates … Read more

How to print out http-response header in Python

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Update: Based on comment of OP, that only the response headers are needed. Even more easy as written in below documentation of Requests module: We can view the server’s response headers using a Python dictionary: >>> r.headers { ‘content-encoding’: ‘gzip’, ‘transfer-encoding’: ‘chunked’, ‘connection’: ‘close’, ‘server’: ‘nginx/1.0.4’, ‘x-runtime’: ‘148ms’, ‘etag’: ‘”e1ca502697e5c9317743dc078f67693f”‘, ‘content-type’: ‘application/json’ } And especially … Read more