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mikeal committed Jan 23, 2011
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The first argument is an options object. The only required option is uri, all others are optional.

* `'uri'` - fully qualified uri or a parsed url object from url.parse()
* `'method'` - http method, defaults to GET
* `'headers'` - http headers, defaults to {}
* `'body'` - entity body for POST and PUT requests
* `'client'` - existing http client object (when undefined a new one will be created and assigned to this property so you can keep around a reference to it if you would like use keep-alive on later request)
* '`followRedirect` - follow HTTP 3xx responses as redirects. defaults to true.
* '`requestBodyStream` - Stream to read request body chunks from.
* '`responseBodyStream` - Stream to write body chunks to. When set this option will be passed as the last argument to the callback instead of the entire body.
* `uri` || `url` - fully qualified uri or a parsed url object from url.parse()
* `method` - http method, defaults to GET
* `headers` - http headers, defaults to {}
* `body` - entity body for POST and PUT requests
* `client` - existing http client object (when undefined a new one will be created and assigned to this property so you can keep around a reference to it if you would like use keep-alive on later request)
* `followRedirect` - follow HTTP 3xx responses as redirects. defaults to true.
* `maxRedirects` - the maximum number of redirects to follow, defaults to 10.
* `onResponse` - If true the callback will be fired on the "response" event instead of "end". If a function it will be called on "response" and not effect the regular semantics of the main callback on "end".
* `encoding` - Encoding to be used on response.setEncoding when buffering the response data.
* `requestBodyStream` - Stream to read request body chunks from.
* `responseBodyStream` - Stream to write body chunks to. When set this option will be passed as the last argument to the callback instead of the entire body.

The callback argument gets 3 arguments. The first is an error when applicable (usually from the http.Client option not the http.ClientRequest object). The second in an http.ClientResponse object. The third is the response body buffer.

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