Problem with http GET request on node js

Question

Im writing an http client to read from facebook using node.js and using the following code:

var http = require(\'http\');

var options = {
  host: \'www.fb.com\'         


        

Answer 1

var request_options = 
{
    host: 'www.fb.com',
    headers: {'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'},
    path: '/'
};

Setting the request option this way should work.

Answer 2

This dosent seem to be a bug of node.js I made a request to fb.com in curl and I got the same redirect.

It probably makes that decision based on the user agent... maybe you can use the user agent of a browser :D