#hottap is an HTTP client library for node that just does what you expect.

hottap is a node.js library for doing http requests that is simpler (IMO) than the standard library, without trying to do much else. I think it's a 'just-enough abstraction' over http to avoid leakiness and is probably useful for 90% of the common use-cases.

It has no dependencies other than the node standard library.

##Example Usage:

###Simple GET: var hottap = require('hottap').hottap; hottap("https://asdf.com/api/message/1").request("GET", function(err, response){ console.log(response.body); });

###Simple POST: var hottap = require('hottap').hottap; hottap("http://sdf.com/api/message/") .request("POST", {"Content-Type" : "application/json"}, '{"subject":"blah"}', function(err, response){ console.log(response.status); } );

##About the response object: response.status // status code as a Number response.body // http body as a string response.headers // headers as an object/hash

##About the Url object var url = hottap("http://login:password@asdf.com/some/path?some_var=some_value#testhash"); url.port = 80 url.protocol = "http" url.path = "/some/path" url.hostname = "asdf.com" url.hash = "testhash" url.querystring.some_var = "some_value" url.auth = 'login:password'

Invalid Urls will throw exceptions!

##Running the Tests: Running tests requires a few dependencies (listed in package.json). To install them, simply type:

npm install

To run the tests, at the project root, simply type:

mocha

##JSON convenience method: var hottap = require('hottap').hottap; hottap("http://sdf.com/api/message/").json("POST", {}, {"subject":"blah"}, function(err, response){ console.log(response.body.subject); // "blah" });