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doc: improve http.request and https.request opts
This adds a few previously undocumented option to both functions. PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1551 Fixes: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1082 Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>pull/1551/merge
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- `host`: A domain name or IP address of the server to issue the request to.
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- `host`: A domain name or IP address of the server to issue the request to.
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Defaults to `'localhost'`.
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Defaults to `'localhost'`.
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- `hostname`: To support `url.parse()` `hostname` is preferred over `host`
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- `hostname`: Alias for `host`. To support `url.parse()` `hostname` is
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preferred over `host`.
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- `family`: IP address family to use when resolving `host` and `hostname`.
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Valid values are `4` or `6`. When unspecified, both IP v4 and v6 will be
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used.
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- `port`: Port of remote server. Defaults to 80.
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- `port`: Port of remote server. Defaults to 80.
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- `localAddress`: Local interface to bind for network connections.
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- `localAddress`: Local interface to bind for network connections.
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- `socketPath`: Unix Domain Socket (use one of host:port or socketPath)
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- `socketPath`: Unix Domain Socket (use one of host:port or socketPath).
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- `method`: A string specifying the HTTP request method. Defaults to `'GET'`.
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- `method`: A string specifying the HTTP request method. Defaults to `'GET'`.
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- `path`: Request path. Defaults to `'/'`. Should include query string if any.
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- `path`: Request path. Defaults to `'/'`. Should include query string if any.
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E.G. `'/index.html?page=12'`. An exception is thrown when the request path
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E.G. `'/index.html?page=12'`. An exception is thrown when the request path
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@ -103,11 +103,19 @@ The options argument has the following options
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- `host`: A domain name or IP address of the server to issue the request to.
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- `host`: A domain name or IP address of the server to issue the request to.
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Defaults to `'localhost'`.
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Defaults to `'localhost'`.
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- `hostname`: To support `url.parse()` `hostname` is preferred over `host`
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- `hostname`: Alias for `host`. To support `url.parse()` `hostname` is
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preferred over `host`.
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- `family`: IP address family to use when resolving `host` and `hostname`.
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Valid values are `4` or `6`. When unspecified, both IP v4 and v6 will be
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used.
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- `port`: Port of remote server. Defaults to 443.
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- `port`: Port of remote server. Defaults to 443.
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- `localAddress`: Local interface to bind for network connections.
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- `socketPath`: Unix Domain Socket (use one of host:port or socketPath).
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- `method`: A string specifying the HTTP request method. Defaults to `'GET'`.
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- `method`: A string specifying the HTTP request method. Defaults to `'GET'`.
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- `path`: Request path. Defaults to `'/'`. Should include query string if any.
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- `path`: Request path. Defaults to `'/'`. Should include query string if any.
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E.G. `'/index.html?page=12'`
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E.G. `'/index.html?page=12'`. An exception is thrown when the request path
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contains illegal characters. Currently, only spaces are rejected but that
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may change in the future.
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- `headers`: An object containing request headers.
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- `headers`: An object containing request headers.
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- `auth`: Basic authentication i.e. `'user:password'` to compute an
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- `auth`: Basic authentication i.e. `'user:password'` to compute an
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Authorization header.
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Authorization header.
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