Nodeschool.io's learnyounode HTTP Collect

HttpCollect.js

var http = require('http');

var url = process.argv[2];
http.get(url, function (response) {
    response.setEncoding('utf8');
    response.on('error', console.error);

    var allCharacters = '';
    response.on('data', function (data) {
        allCharacters += data;
    });

    response.on('end', function () {
        console.log(allCharacters.length);
        console.log(allCharacters);
    });
});