Caching HTTP Client

Overview

Strong-caching-http-client is an HTTP client with a transparent filesystem-based cache.

Usage

Installation

$ npm install strong-caching-http-client

API

The API is similar to the API of request.

var client = require('strong-caching-http-client');

client.request(
  'http://nodejs.org/',
  {
    cache: '/tmp/http-client-cache'
  },
  function(err, resp) {
    // resp is http.IncomingMessage
  }
);

Options:

• cache Path to the directory where the client should keep cached data.
• method GET/POST/etc.
• headers Request headers (optional).
• body Request body (optional). Either String, Buffer or Stream.
• maxAge Accept a cached response whose age is no greater that the specified time in seconds. Default: 60.
• maxStale Accept a cached response that has exceeded its expiration time (as set by maxAge option) by no more than the specified time in seconds.