"readme":"#Request--SimplifiedHTTPrequestmethod\n\n##Install\n\n<pre>\nnpminstallrequest\n</pre>\n\nOrfromsource:\n\n<pre>\ngitclonegit://github.com/mikeal/request.git \n cd request\n npm link\n</pre>\n\n## Super simple to use\n\nRequest is designed to be the simplest way possible to make http calls. It supports HTTPS and follows redirects by default.\n\n```javascript\nvar request = require('request');\nrequest('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {\n if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {\n console.log(body) // Print the google web page.\n }\n})\n```\n\n## Streaming\n\nYou can stream any response to a file stream.\n\n```javascript\nrequest('http://google.com/doodle.png').pipe(fs.createWriteStream('doodle.png'))\n```\n\nYou can also stream a file to a PUT or POST request. This method will also check the file extension against a mapping of file extensions to content-types, in this case `application/json`, and use the proper content-type in the PUT request if one is not already provided in the headers.\n\n```javascript\nfs.createReadStream('file.json').pipe(request.put('http://mysite.com/obj.json'))\n```\n\nRequest can also pipe to itself. When doing so the content-type and content-length will be preserved in the PUT headers.\n\n```javascript\nrequest.get('http://google.com/img.png').pipe(request.put('http://mysite.com/img.png'))\n```\n\nNow let's get fancy.\n\n```javascript\nhttp.createServer(function (req, resp) {\n if (req.url === '/doodle.png') {\n if (req.method === 'PUT') {\n req.pipe(request.put('http://mysite.com/doodle.png'))\n } else if (req.method === 'GET' || req.method === 'HEAD') {\n request.get('http://mysite.com/doodle.png').pipe(resp)\n } \n }\n})\n```\n\nYou can also pipe() from a http.ServerRequest instance and to a http.ServerResponse instance. The HTTP method and headers will be sent as well as the entity-body data. Which means that, if you don't really care about security, you can do:\n\n```javascript\nhttp.createServer(function (req, resp) {\n if (req.url === '/doodle.png') {\n var x = request('http://mysite.com/doodle.png')\n req.pipe(x)\n x.pipe(resp)\n }\n})\n```\n\nAnd since pipe() returns the destination stream in node 0.5.x you can do one line proxying :)\n\n```javascript\nreq.pipe(request('http://mysite.com/doodle.png')).pipe(resp)\n```\n\nAlso, none of this new functionality conflicts with requests previous features, it just expands them.\n\n```javascript\nvar r = request.defaults({'proxy':'http://localproxy.com'})\n\nhttp.createServer(function (req, resp) {\n if (req.url === '/doodle.png') {\n r.get('http://google.com/doodle.png').pipe(resp)\n }\n})\n```\nYou can still use intermediate proxies, the requests will still follow HTTP forwards, etc.\n\n## Forms\n\n`request` supports `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` and `multipart/form-data` form uploads. For `multipart/related` refer to the `multipart` API.\n\nUrl encoded forms are simple\n\n```javascript\nrequest.post('http://service.com/upload', {form:{key:'value'}})\n// or\nrequest.post('http://service.com/upload').form({key:'value'})\n```\n\nFor `multipart/form-data` we use the [form-data](https://github.com/felixge/node-form-data) library by [@felixge](https://github.com/felixge). You don't need to worry about piping the form object or setting the headers, `request` will handle that for you.\n\n```javascript\nvar r = request.post('http://service.com/upload')\nvar form = r.form()\nform.append('my_field', 'my_value')\nform.append('my_buffer', new Buffer([1, 2, 3]))\nform.append('my_file', fs.createReadStream(path.join(__dirname, 'doodle.png'))\nform.append('remote_file', request('http://google.com/doodle.png'))\n```\n\n## HTTP Authentication\n\n```javascript\nrequest.auth('username', 'password', false).get('http://some.server.com/');\n// or\nrequest.get('http://some.server.com/', {\n 'auth': {\n 'user': 'username',\n 'pass': 'password',\n 'sendImmediately': false\n }\n});\n```\n\nIf passed as an option, `auth` should be a hash containing va
