Listening for HTTP requests

In Chapter 4, I created a simple web server so that I could demonstrate the way that JavaScript code is executed. In doing so, I skipped over the details of how the code worked, but now it is time to go back and dig into the details.

The createServer function in the http module is used to create Server objects that can be used to listen for and process HTTP requests. The Server object requires configuration before it starts listening for requests and the most useful methods and properties defined by the Server class are described in Table 5.3.

Table 5.3: Useful server methods and properties

Name	Description
listen(port)	This method starts listening for requests on a specified port.
close()	This method...