doc: sending http request to localhost to avoid https redirect

In the JSON fetching example, http.get request is being sent to an http url that redirects to https. This causes the http.get request to fail. To avoid redirect errors, a local http server is set up that returns a json response. Fixes: #37907 PR-URL: #38036 Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Nitzan Uziely <linkgoron@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Juan José Arboleda <soyjuanarbol@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
nodejs · Apr 6, 2021 · 0d34767c4cb84b067b08505c3d98215e0adeee5d · 0d34767
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@@ -2720,7 +2720,7 @@ The `callback` is invoked with a single argument that is an instance of
 JSON fetching example:
 
 ```js
-http.get('http://nodejs.org/dist/index.json', (res) => {
+http.get('http://localhost:8000/', (res) => {
   const { statusCode } = res;
   const contentType = res.headers['content-type'];
 
@@ -2755,6 +2755,16 @@ http.get('http://nodejs.org/dist/index.json', (res) => {
 }).on('error', (e) => {
   console.error(`Got error: ${e.message}`);
 });
+
+// Create a local server to receive data from
+const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
+  res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' });
+  res.end(JSON.stringify({
+    data: 'Hello World!'
+  }));
+});
+
+server.listen(8000);
 ```
 
 ## `http.globalAgent`