Support for a string as a parameter

Author: TehShrike

index.js

@@ -1,16 +1,20 @@
 var http = module.exports;
 var EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
 var Request = require('./lib/request');
+var url = require('url')
 
 http.request = function (params, cb) {
+    if (typeof params === 'string') {
+        params = url.parse(params)
+    }
     if (!params) params = {};
     if (!params.host && !params.port) {
         params.port = parseInt(window.location.port, 10);
     }
     if (!params.host && params.hostname) {
         params.host = params.hostname;
     }
-    
+
     if (!params.scheme) params.scheme = window.location.protocol.split(':')[0];
     if (!params.host) {
         params.host = window.location.hostname || window.location.host;
@@ -22,7 +26,7 @@ http.request = function (params, cb) {
         params.host = params.host.split(':')[0];
     }
     if (!params.port) params.port = params.scheme == 'https' ? 443 : 80;
-    
+
     var req = new Request(new xhrHttp, params);
     if (cb) req.on('response', cb);
     return req;

test/request_url.js

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ test('Test simple url string', function(t) {
 
 
 test('Test full url object', function(t) {
-  var url = { 
+  var url = {
     host: "localhost:8081",
     hostname: "localhost",
     href: "http://localhost:8081/api/foo?bar=baz",
@@ -46,4 +46,14 @@ test('Test full url object', function(t) {
   t.equal( request.uri, 'http://localhost:8081/api/foo?bar=baz', 'Url should be correct');
   t.end();
 
-});
+});
+
+
+test('Test string as parameters', function(t) {
+  var url = '/api/foo';
+  var request = http.get(url, noop);
+
+  t.equal( request.uri, 'http://localhost:8081/api/foo', 'Url should be correct');
+  t.end();
+
+})