How do I upload file in nodejs to a server?

Question

I have bean searching the Internet on how to upload a file to a web server from nodejs. I found some stuff but it told you how to upload to a nodejs server and not some other web server. So my qutions is how can I upload a file using nodejs to a web serve?

Answer 1

Use the http module and pipe a file stream to the request.

var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
});

req.on('error', function(err) {
  throw err;
});

fs.createReadStream(file).pipe(req);