gistfile1.js

var express = require("express");
var app = express();

var http = require("http");
var url = require('url');
var gunzip = require('zlib').createGunzip();

app.use(express.logger());

var http = require("http");
var url = require('url');
var gunzip = require('zlib').createGunzip();


app.get('/foo', function(request, response) {

    var params = '{}';

    var dataURL = url.parse('http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users');

    var headers = {
      "accept-charset" : "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3",
      "accept-language" : "en-US,en;q=0.8",
      "accept" : "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
      "user-agent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/537.13+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.7 Safari/534.57.2",
      "accept-encoding" : "gzip,deflate",
    };

    var options = {
        hostname: dataURL.hostname,
        port: dataURL.port || 80,
        path: dataURL.path,
        method: 'GET',
        headers: headers
    };

    console.log('foo');

    http.request(options, function(res) {
        var body = '';

        res.pipe(gunzip);

        gunzip.on('data', function (data) {
            body += data;
        });

        gunzip.on('end', function() {
            console.log(JSON.parse(body));
        });
    });

});