don't use http.createClient; deprecated in 0.8.x

lib/jsonrpc.js

@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ var Client = function(port, host, user, password) {
   this.password = password;
 
   this.call = function(method, params, callback, errback, path) {
-    var client = http.createClient(port, host);
-    var clientRequestErrorCalled = false;
 
     // First we encode the request into JSON
     var requestJSON = JSON.stringify({
@@ -24,32 +22,27 @@ var Client = function(port, host, user, password) {
       'params': params
     });
 
-    var headers = {};
-
-    if (user && password) {
-      var buff = new Buffer(this.user + ":" + this.password)
-                           .toString('base64');
-      var auth = 'Basic ' + buff;
-      headers['Authorization'] = auth;
-    }
-
-    // Then we build some basic headers.
-    headers['Host'] = host;
-    headers['Content-Length'] = requestJSON.length;
-
-    // Now we'll make a request to the server
-
-    var request = client.request('POST', path || '/', headers);
-    request.write(requestJSON);
-    
-    function clientRequestErrorHandler(e) {
-      if (!clientRequestErrorCalled) {
-        clientRequestErrorCalled = true;
-        errback(e);
+    // prepare request options
+    var requestOptions = {
+      host: host,
+      port: port,
+      method: 'POST',
+      path: path || '/',
+      headers: {
+        'Host': host,
+        'Content-Length': requestJSON.length
       }
+    };
+    
+    // use HTTP auth if user and password set
+    if (user && password) {
+      requestOptions.auth = this.user + ':' + this.password;
     }
-    client.on('error', clientRequestErrorHandler);
-    request.on('error', clientRequestErrorHandler);
+    
+    // Now we'll make a request to the server
+    var request = http.request(requestOptions);
+    
+    request.on('error', errback);
 
     request.on('response', function(response) {
       // We need to buffer the response chunks in a nonblocking way.
@@ -102,6 +95,8 @@ var Client = function(port, host, user, password) {
         
       });
     });
+    request.write(requestJSON);
+    request.end();
   };
 }
 

package.json

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
     "rpc"
   ],
   "author": "Bill Casarin <bill@casarin.ca> (jb55.com)",
+  "contributors": [
+    "Sean Lavine <sean@eternalrise.com>"
+  ],
   "dependencies": {
     "underscore": "1.3.x"
   },
@@ -19,10 +22,10 @@
     "vows": "0.6.x"
   },
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=0.2.6"
+    "node": ">= 0.6.0 < 0.9.0"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "test": "make test"
   },
   "optionalDependencies": {}
-}
+}