Did this ever get filed as a bug or otherwise addressed? I can confirm the same behavior and discrepancies in the docs, and it's not clear how I'm supposed to correctly end my client reading of a 200 response (which just hangs with no end/error/close events).
On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 8:15:57 PM UTC-8, Tom wrote: > > I would like to add to the above that req/res.connection or req/res.socket > are not officially supported according to the docs ( > http://nodejs.org/api/all.html#all_class_http_clientrequest). > > Tom > > Op woensdag 7 november 2012 11:07:27 UTC+7 schreef Tom het volgende: >> >> That may work, but that does not resolve the situation. >> >> I would like to know when the WritableStream `res` (which it is) is no >> longer writable. The documentation stipulates that it should emit a `close` >> event, but it does not. >> >> This means that it's a bug by definition, right? >> >> Anyway, I do not know if the underlying socket actually closing also >> means that the response cannot be written to anymore at this exact point, >> or if the response was closed somewhat earlier already. Therefore I do not >> think it is appropriate to listen to the underlying socket: the higher >> level response may be unwritable earlier than that. >> >> Tom >> >> Op woensdag 7 november 2012 03:03:05 UTC+7 schreef mscdex het volgende: >>> >>> On Nov 6, 11:01 am, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I'm afraid that the `close` event does not emit either, as becomes >>> clear >>> > when hooking into the emit function as described earlier. >>> > >>> > Only `header` and `finish` emit. >>> > >>> > Why is this so? >>> >>> What if you inspect events emitted on the underlying socket object >>> (req/res.socket or req/res.connection)? >>> >> -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
