http-send

Http send function inspired by res.send() of express

Supports:

• Sending of strings, buffers and streams
• Automatic Content-Length assignment
• HEAD requests handling
• Freshness checking
• ETags

Examples

var send = require('http-send')

// send hello world string
send(req, res, 'Hello world')

// do something when response were closed or finished
send(req, res, 'foo', function () {
  // no chances to respond here
})

// streaming
var stream = fs.createReadStream('foo.txt')
stream.on('error', function (err) {
  if (!res.headersSent) { // we can respond
    res.statusCode = 500
    send(req, res, err.message)
  }
})
send(req, res, stream, function () {
  stream.destroy()
})

Installation

npm install http-send

License

MIT