Monitoring request headers sent by Node.js

Question

So I'm working on a service that calls a subreddit and requests the hottest articles in JSON. Now Reddit likes that anyone using the reddit API modifies their User-Agent Header to be descriptive (here's a link on the format).

So using Node.JS and the Request plugin, I wrote something like this

var subreddit = 'somesupercoolsubreddit';
var stories = '5';
var options ={
    url : url.parse(REDDIT_URL+"/r/"+subreddit+"/hot.json"+"?"+"limit="+stories),
    headers : {'User-Agent' :  'Super Cool Reddit Service for Local Widgets! by /u/mrkaiser'}, 
    json: true
};
request(options,function(err,response,body){
    serverResponse.send(body);
});

But how do I know this worked? Is there some way to know if request header actually got populated or if Reddit got the right User-Agent?

Adam Hopkinson · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-27 23:18:44Z

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Create another node script that waits for connections and outputs the headers. Change your reddit script to temporarily call the new script and verify the headers.

answered Jan 27, 2013 at 23:18

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Carlos Chitty Over a year ago

Is there a way to do this in the same node.js script?

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