How to redirect to target url using node 'http'

Question

I am executing below code snippet but it is not redirecting to actual page.

var http = require('http');

var options = {
  host: 'google.com',
  port: 80,
  path: '/search?q=hello+world'
};

http.get(options, function(resp){
resp.setEncoding('utf8');
  resp.on('data', function(chunk){
    //do something with chunk
console.log('================\n\n', chunk);
  });
}).on("error", function(e){
  console.log("Got error: " + e.message);
});

Command fire :

node sample.js

Output :

================

 <HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>302 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://www.google.co.in/search?q=hello+world&amp;gws_rd=cr&amp;dcr=0&amp;ei=Wd3xWd_nBITovgSl9bXwCA">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

I want to get entire page html but not this instead of I want results for hello world.

google.com is a relative address. you need to change this to Http://google.com — Farzin Kanzi, Oct 26 '17 at 13:11
Then I get this Got error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND http://www.google.com http://www.google.com:80 — VVB, Oct 26 '17 at 13:12
Possible duplicate of [How do you follow an HTTP Redirect in Node.js?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7323932/how-do-you-follow-an-http-redirect-in-node-js) — Haroldo_OK, Oct 26 '17 at 13:18

Janen R · Answer 1 · 2017-10-26T13:18:30.990

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use resp.redirect('url'); for redirect to the required page.

Basically node js is developed for create server.But incidently it has come to server side..so its soo diffcult to make application in core node js..you can try atleast any frameworks such as express js..https://expressjs.com/ just go through this strong & easy & famous framework..if you dont like it then go to another

edited Oct 26 '17 at 13:18

answered Oct 26 '17 at 13:10

Janen R

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Getting this TypeError: resp.redirect is not a function – VVB Oct 26 '17 at 13:14
The thing is I don't want to open this in browser by createServer() method and want to access the data by console itself – VVB Oct 26 '17 at 13:19
in console `html` won't work..it shows full code always – Janen R Oct 26 '17 at 13:23
Yes agreed. I just need to see entire code not just html – VVB Oct 26 '17 at 13:23
i think google doesn't allow to get data like `google doesn't show in iframe` – Janen R Oct 26 '17 at 13:26
But any other url is giving the same kind of redirection error page – VVB Oct 26 '17 at 13:26
that website should have `'Access-Control-Allow-Origin'` access – Janen R Oct 26 '17 at 13:30

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '17 at 13:12

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Try putting instead of utf8 - “utf-8” ; with the dash sign

answered Oct 26 '17 at 13:12

Elad Goldenberg

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Still same results – VVB Oct 26 '17 at 13:13

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 26 '17 at 13:19

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What you actually want is to follow the redirect. See this other question for possible answers: How do you follow an HTTP Redirect in Node.js?

answered Oct 26 '17 at 13:19

Haroldo_OK

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