Since most requests are GET requests without bodies, Node.js provides this

convenience method. The only difference between this method and

[`http.request()`][] is that it sets the method to GET and calls `req.end()`

automatically. Note that response data must be consumed in the callback

for reasons stated in [`http.ClientRequest`][] section.

automatically. Note that the callback must take care to consume the response

data for reasons stated in [`http.ClientRequest`][] section.

The `callback` is invoked with a single argument that is an instance of

[`http.IncomingMessage`][]