I read that same thing, that is why I was surprised when I was seeing a value of 500 returned via the res.statusCode property in the included code yet the emit code never fired.
On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 4:14:27 AM UTC-5, greelgorke wrote: > > from http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback: > > If any error is encountered during the request (be that with DNS > resolution, TCP level errors, or actual HTTP parse errors) an 'error' event > is emitted on the returned request object. > > read: anything what results in invalid HTTP process will emit an 'error'. > > Am Dienstag, 27. November 2012 15:20:42 UTC+1 schrieb GinnyD: >> >> I am currently using the http module to perform a POST operation to a >> remote API call and I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle error >> situations where things don't quite go as planned. I thought I could use >> the error event emitter but I have a situation where the server returns a >> 500 http status code but my code in the error event emitter never fires. >> My question is what will cause the error event emitter to fire? Is a http >> return code of 500 enough or is it looking for something else in the >> response from the call? The snippet of the node code in question is listed >> below. The res.statusCode shows a value of 500, but the console.log within >> the error emitter never fires off. This is occuring on version 0.8.11. >> Any guidance would be appreciated. >> >> Ginny >> >> >> *var post_data = querystring.stringify(data);* >> >> * >> * >> >> *// An object of options to indicate where to post to* >> >> *var post_options = {* >> >> * host: host_url,* >> >> * port: port_num,* >> >> * path: url_path,* >> >> * method: 'POST',* >> >> * headers: {* >> >> * 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',* >> >> * 'Content-Length': post_data.length* >> >> * }* >> >> *};* >> >> * >> * >> >> *var req = http.request(post_options, function(res) {* >> >> * console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);* >> >> * console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));* >> >> * res.setEncoding('utf8');* >> >> * res.on('data', function (chunk) {* >> >> * console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);* >> >> * });* >> >> *});* >> >> * >> * >> >> *req.on('error', function(e) {* >> >> * console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);* >> >> *});* >> >> * >> * >> >> *req.write(post_data);* >> >> *req.end();* >> >> >> -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
