The xhr module implements support for making HTTP requests using XMLHttpRequest.

$ component install anchorjs/xhr 

$ volo add anchorjs/xhr 

xhr.request() returns an instance of Request. If one needs to upload data with a POST request:

var req = xhr.request('/upload', 'POST', function(res) { res.on('end', function() { console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode); console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers)); console.log('BODY: ' + res.responseText); }); }); req.on('error', function(e) { console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message); }); req.send('data\n');

Since most requests are GET requests without bodies, Anchor provides get() as a convenience method. The only difference between this method and xhr.request() is that it sets the method to GET and calls req.send() automatically.

xhr.get("/user.json", function(res) { console.log("Got response: " + res.statusCode); }).on('error', function(e) { console.log("Got error: " + e.message); });

This module uses the AMD format. To include in component builds, use component-amd:

component build -u component-amd 

To run tests in a browser, execute the Make target for the desired browser:

$ make test-chrome $ make test-firefox $ make test-safari 

Headless tests can be executed directly from a terminal:

$ make test-phantomjs 

• Jared Hanson

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Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Jared Hanson <http://jaredhanson.net/>