Node.js module

http

The 'node:http' module provides classes and methods to create HTTP servers and clients. It includes the IncomingMessage and ServerResponse classes for handling request/response lifecycles on the server side, and the ClientRequest and IncomingMessage classes for client-side HTTP interactions.

Fully supported in Bun

Fully implemented. Note: Outgoing client request body is currently buffered instead of streamed.

Functions 7

http.createServer()
Returns a new instance of Server.
http.get()
Since most requests are GET requests without bodies, Node.js provides this convenience method.
http.request()
options in socket.connect() are also supported.
http.setGlobalProxyFromEnv()
Dynamically resets the global configurations to enable built-in proxy support for
http.setMaxIdleHTTPParsers()
Set the maximum number of idle HTTP parsers.
http.validateHeaderName()
Performs the low-level validations on the provided name that are done when res.setHeader(name, value) is called.
http.validateHeaderValue()
Performs the low-level validations on the provided value that are done when res.setHeader(name, value) is called.

Classes 6

class http.Agent
An Agent is responsible for managing connection persistence and reuse for HTTP clients.
class http.ClientRequest
This object is created internally and returned from request.
class http.IncomingMessage
An IncomingMessage object is created by Server or ClientRequest and passed as the first argument to the 'request' and 'response' event respectively.
class http.OutgoingMessage
This class serves as the parent class of ClientRequest and ServerResponse.
class http.Server
class http.ServerResponse
This object is created internally by an HTTP server, not by the user.

Interfaces 12

Types 2

Variables 7

const http.CloseEvent
const http.globalAgent
Global instance of Agent which is used as the default for all HTTP client requests.
const http.maxHeaderSize
Read-only property specifying the maximum allowed size of HTTP headers in bytes.
const http.MessageEvent
const http.METHODS
const http.STATUS_CODES
const http.WebSocket
A browser-compatible implementation of WebSocket.