## Class: IncomingMessage

> Handle responses to HTTP/HTTPS requests.

Process: [Main](../glossary.md#main-process)

`IncomingMessage` implements the [Readable Stream](https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_readable_streams)
interface and is therefore an [EventEmitter][event-emitter].

### Instance Events

#### Event: 'data'

Returns:

* `chunk` Buffer - A chunk of response body's data.

The `data` event is the usual method of transferring response data into
applicative code.

#### Event: 'end'

Indicates that response body has ended. Must be placed before 'data' event.

#### Event: 'aborted'

Emitted when a request has been canceled during an ongoing HTTP transaction.

#### Event: 'error'

Returns:

`error` Error - Typically holds an error string identifying failure root cause.

Emitted when an error was encountered while streaming response data events. For
instance, if the server closes the underlying while the response is still
streaming, an `error` event will be emitted on the response object and a `close`
event will subsequently follow on the request object.

### Instance Properties

An `IncomingMessage` instance has the following readable properties:

#### `response.statusCode`

An `Integer` indicating the HTTP response status code.

#### `response.statusMessage`

A `String` representing the HTTP status message.

#### `response.headers`

A `Record<string, string | string[]>` representing the HTTP response headers. The `headers` object is
formatted as follows:

* All header names are lowercased.
* Duplicates of `age`, `authorization`, `content-length`, `content-type`,
`etag`, `expires`, `from`, `host`, `if-modified-since`, `if-unmodified-since`,
`last-modified`, `location`, `max-forwards`, `proxy-authorization`, `referer`,
`retry-after`, `server`, or `user-agent` are discarded.
* `set-cookie` is always an array. Duplicates are added to the array.
* For duplicate `cookie` headers, the values are joined together with '; '.
* For all other headers, the values are joined together with ', '.

#### `response.httpVersion`

A `String` indicating the HTTP protocol version number. Typical values are '1.0'
or '1.1'. Additionally `httpVersionMajor` and `httpVersionMinor` are two
Integer-valued readable properties that return respectively the HTTP major and
minor version numbers.

#### `response.httpVersionMajor`

An `Integer` indicating the HTTP protocol major version number.

#### `response.httpVersionMinor`

An `Integer` indicating the HTTP protocol minor version number.

[event-emitter]: https://nodejs.org/api/events.html#events_class_eventemitter
