PHP to Node.js: cURL with Basic Authentication

php2js-curl-basic-auth.js

/*
<?php

// THE FOLLOWING IMPLEMENTATION CAN BE USED FOR VARIOUS APIs. THIS WAS TESTED SUCCESSFULLY ON THE pingdom.com API

$email   = "[email protected]";
$passwd  = 'password';
$api_key = "API_KEY";

$curl = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.domain.com/api/2.0/checks/");
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $email . ":" . $passwd );
		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("API: " . $api_key ));
		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$response = json_decode( curl_exec( $curl ),true );

?>
*/

/****** NODE.JS ******/

var https    = require("https");
var email 	 = "[email protected]";
var password = "password";
var api_key  = "API_KEY";

https.request({
		host: "api.domain.com",
		path:"/api/2.0/checks/",
		method: 'GET',
		headers: {
			"API": api_key,
			"Authorization": "Basic " + new Buffer( email + ":" + password ).toString('base64')
		}
	}, function(res){

		var response = "";

		res.on('data', function(chunk){
			response += chunk;
		});

		res.on('end',function(){
			response = JSON.parse(response);
			// DO STUFF WITH response HERE...
		});

}).end();