Cleaning unused spaces, adding content to readme

README.md

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ Usage
 
 A working example:
 
-    // simple example
     var sys = require('sys'),
         wwdude = require('node-wwwdude');
 
@@ -58,13 +57,15 @@ API
 
 ### wwwdude.createClient([options]) 
 
+Creates a new client object with predefined options for each request made with this instance.
+
 #### options hash
 
 * _encoding_ content encoding. e.g. binary or utf8. Default is utf8. 
 * _logger_ the logger you want to use. Default is an internal logger using sys.log.
 * _headers_ a hash with the headers you want to use for each request.
 
-This calls returns a Request object. On that request object you can call methods for each supported HTTP verb.
+The createClient call returns a Request object. On that request object you can call methods for each supported HTTP verb.
 
 ### client.get(url[, customHeaders])
 
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ Creates a HTTP HEAD request
 
 The customHeaders hash contains a set of HTTP headers which should be added to a request. They are optional. A working example would be:
 
-    customHeaders = { 'User-Agent': 'Foo', 'Accept: 'text/html' };
+    customHeaders = { 'User-Agent': 'Foo', 'Accept': 'text/html' };
 
 ### Listeners
 
@@ -166,13 +167,14 @@ To run the unit tests, nodeunit and log4js-node are required. You can install th
 
 There's a Makefile to run the tests:
 
-make test
+    make test
 
 TODO:
 -----
 
 * Get rid of logging statements
 * Add plugin infrastructure
+* More configurable redirect following (set max. redirect count, disable following of redirect)
 * Pluggable logger support
 * Pluggable support for transparent content decoders
 

lib/wwwdude.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*!
  * httpclient.js a thin abstraction layer for http client stuff
  *
- * @author pfleidi 
+ * @author pfleidi
  *
  * Copyright(c) 2010 Sven Pfleiderer.
  * MIT Licensed
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ exports.createClient = function createClient(options) {
 
   var logger = options.logger || defaultLogger,
   encoding = options.encoding || 'utf8',
-  clientHeaders = Meta.mergeAttributes(defaultHeaders, options.headers); 
+  clientHeaders = Meta.mergeAttributes(defaultHeaders, options.headers);
 
   function Request(method, url, options) {
     var self = this,
@@ -144,13 +144,13 @@ exports.createClient = function createClient(options) {
     this._respond(statusCodes[code.toString()], data, response);
 
     if (code >= 400) {
-      logger.error("Error: status code " + response.statusCode); 
+      logger.error("Error: status code " + response.statusCode);
       this._respond('error', data, response);
     } else if (code >= 300) {
       this._respond('redirect', data, response);
       if (code === 301 || code === 302) {
         this._redirect(response);
-      } 
+      }
     } else if (code >= 200) {
       logger.info('Transfer complete');
       this._respond('success', data, response);
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ exports.createClient = function createClient(options) {
 
   Request.prototype._redirect = function (response) {
     var nextLocation = Url.resolve(this.url, response.headers.location);
-    this.options.originalRequest = this;  
+    this.options.originalRequest = this;
     (new Request(this.method, nextLocation, this.options).send());
     logger.info("Next URL: " + nextLocation);
   };
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ exports.createClient = function createClient(options) {
   /**
    * Parse an URL an add some needed properties
    *
-   * @param {String} url 
+   * @param {String} url
    * @return {Object}
    * @api private
    */

package.json

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ "name" : "node-wwwdude",
+{ "name" : "wwwdude",
   "description" : "Simple to use HTTP library on top of the built in libs of node.js",
   "tags" : ["http", "simple", "util", "rest", "utility"],
   "version" : "0.0.1",