Fire get request within a helper

[cgpro]

I've written a small image generator API for placeholders in express. To generate the missing files, I want to trigger a get-request to my API (localhost:1337/width/800/height/600). Node's http.get didn't work.

Have some an idea to get this work? I want to generate missing files for src-sets while compilation. It works fine if I request the missing images on client side while developing... but I'm afraid, there could be missing images when I compile the project.