Cordova Node HTTP: Node API HTTP plugin for Android

This module is an implementation of Node's native http module for Cordova on Android. It tries to match Node's API and behavior as closely as possible, but is still a work in progress and some features are not supported.

Why not use stream-http or cordova-plugin-advanced-http?

Like cordova-plugin-advanced-http this plugin tries to avoid limitations with browser implementations like forced CORS and missing client certificate authentication, but it improves on it by using Node.js stream implementation, to allow for requests of virtually any size, as well as the resuse of existing libraries built for Node.js

Installation

This plugin is published on NPM and can be installed using Cordova CLI

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-node-http

Usage

The intent is to have the same API as the client part of the Node HTTP module. The interfaces are the same wherever practical.

This module implements http.request, http.get, and most of http.ClientRequest and http.IncomingMessage, in addition to http.METHODS, http.STATUS_CODES and some https options (ca, cert and key). See the Node docs for how these work.

Features missing compared to Node

• http.createServer is not supported // TODO document other missing features

Simple Example

const http = window.CordovaNodeHttp;

http.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users', function (res) {

    let users = '';

    res.on('data', function (buf) {
        users += buf.toString('utf8');
    });

    res.on('end', function () {
        console.log(users)
    });
})