diff --git a/.jshintrc b/.jshintrc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..24ffae674
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jshintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+  "bitwise":false,
+  "boss":true,
+  "expr":true,
+  "camelcase":false,
+  "curly":false,
+  "eqeqeq":true,
+  "freeze":true,
+  "immed":true,
+  "indent":2,
+  "latedef":"nofunc",
+  "laxbreak":true,
+  "laxcomma":true,
+  "newcap":true,
+  "noarg":true,
+  "node":true,
+  "strict": true,
+  "trailing":true,
+  "undef":true
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/http.js b/lib/http.js
index 4a76d7f82..a12ebcba5 100644
--- a/lib/http.js
+++ b/lib/http.js
@@ -3,51 +3,54 @@
  * MIT Licensed
  */
 
-var url = require('url'),
-    req = require('request');
+"use strict";
+
+var url = require('url');
+var req = require('request');
 
 var VERSION = "0.2.0";
 
 exports.request = function(rurl, data, callback, exheaders, exoptions) {
-    var curl = url.parse(rurl);
-    var secure = curl.protocol == 'https:';
-    var host = curl.hostname;
-    var port = parseInt(curl.port || (secure ? 443 : 80));
-    var path = [curl.pathname || '/', curl.search || '', curl.hash || ''].join('');
-    var method = data ? "POST" : "GET";
-    var headers = {
-        "User-Agent": "node-soap/" + VERSION,
-        "Accept" : "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml,text/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
-        "Accept-Encoding": "none",
-        "Accept-Charset": "utf-8",
-        "Connection": "close",
-        "Host" : host
-    };
-
-    if (typeof data == 'string') {
-        headers["Content-Length"] = Buffer.byteLength(data, 'utf8');;
-        headers["Content-Type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
-    }
+  var curl = url.parse(rurl);
+  var secure = curl.protocol === 'https:';
+  var host = curl.hostname;
+  var port = parseInt(curl.port || (secure ? 443 : 80));
+  var path = [curl.pathname || '/', curl.search || '', curl.hash || ''].join('');
+  var method = data ? "POST" : "GET";
+  var headers = {
+    "User-Agent": "node-soap/" + VERSION,
+    "Accept" : "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml,text/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
+    "Accept-Encoding": "none",
+    "Accept-Charset": "utf-8",
+    "Connection": "close",
+    "Host" : host
+  };
+  var attr;
+
+  if (typeof data === 'string') {
+    headers["Content-Length"] = Buffer.byteLength(data, 'utf8');
+    headers["Content-Type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
+  }
 
-    exheaders = exheaders || {};
-    for (var attr in exheaders) { headers[attr] = exheaders[attr]; }
+  exheaders = exheaders || {};
+  for (attr in exheaders) { headers[attr] = exheaders[attr]; }
 
-    var options = {
-        uri: curl,
-        method: method,
-        headers: headers
-    };
+  var options = {
+    uri: curl,
+    method: method,
+    headers: headers
+  };
    
-    exoptions = exoptions || {};
-    for (var attr in exoptions) { options[attr] = exoptions[attr]; }
-
-    var request = req(options, function (error, res, body) {
-        if (error) {
-            callback(error);
-        } else {
-            request.on('error', callback);
-            callback(null, res, body);
-        }
-    });
-    request.end(data);
-}
+  exoptions = exoptions || {};
+  for (attr in exoptions) { options[attr] = exoptions[attr]; }
+
+  var request = req(options, function (error, res, body) {
+    if (error) {
+      callback(error);
+    } else {
+      request.on('error', callback);
+      callback(null, res, body);
+    }
+  });
+  request.end(data);
+};
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ef9f54508..e4d67ba48 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@
     "lib": "./lib"
   },
   "scripts": {
-    "test": "mocha -R spec -u exports test/*-test.js"
+    "mocha": "mocha -R spec -u exports test/*-test.js",
+    "jshint" : "jshint lib/http.js", 
+    "test": "npm run-script jshint && npm run-script mocha"
   },
   "keywords": [
     "soap"
@@ -31,6 +33,7 @@
     }
   ],
   "devDependencies": {
-    "mocha": "~1.17.0"
+    "mocha": "~1.17.0",
+    "jshint": "~2.4.2"
   }
 }