Sending a GET HTTPS request with basic auth to an API

Question

I'm trying to send a GET request to a user/pass protected API. I'm using Javascript and adding in an "auth" option.

const https = require('https');
const headers= {
 'Accepts' : 'application/json',
}
const options = {
 hostname: 'api.com/more/info',
 port: 443,
 path: '/',
 auth: 'username:password',
 method: 'GET'
};
const req = https.request(options, (res) => {
 console.log('statusCode:', res.statusCode);
 console.log('headers:', res.headers);
 res.on('data', (d) => {
 process.stdout.write(d);
 });
});
req.on('error', (e) => {
 console.error(e);
});
req.end();

The error I receive when this code is run is:

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND api/com/more/info
 at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:66:26) {
 errno: -3008,
 code: 'ENOTFOUND',
 syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
 hostname: 'api.com/more/info'
}

The hostname has been changed for anonymity.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

• Toan Quoc Ho: Have you tried with Postman to send the request? Just to make sure that the DNS server which your computer pointing to can resolve api.com/more/info.

Answer 1

'api.com/more/info' is probably not your hostname.

Try with these options instead:

const options = {
 hostname: 'api.com',
 port: 443,
 path: '/more/info',
 auth: 'username:password',
 method: 'GET'
};