Handling HTTP requests

Currently, our server application will behave in the same way, no matter what kind of HTTP request is processed. Let's extend it in such a way that it behaves more like an HTTP server, and start differentiating the incoming requests based on their type, by implementing handler functions for each type of request.

Let's create a new hello-node-http-server.js as follows:

var http = require('http');
var port = 8180;

function handleGetRequest(response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type' : 'text/plain'});
  response.end('Get action was requested');
}

function handlePostRequest(response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type' : 'text/plain'});
  response.end('Post action was requested');
}

function handlePutRequest(response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type' : 'text/plain'});
  response.end('Put action was requested');
}

function handleDeleteRequest(response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type' : 'text/plain'});
  response.end('Delete action...