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JavaScript

Posted by Michael Henderson
Michael Henderson
2,369 Points

Node Basics: Error 408

treehouse:~/workspace$ node app.js
408
BODY:408 Request Time-out
Your browser didn't send a complete request in time.

Printed our by node after:

var request = https.request("https://teamtreehouse.com/michaelhenderson6.json", function(response){ console.log(response.statusCode); response.on('data',function(chunk) { console.log('BODY: ' + chunk); });

Seems like it would be on my end, maybe a permissions thing with chrome? At a loss though, can't finish my project until I can get the data.

Michael Henderson
Michael Henderson
2,369 Points

Thanks, I solved it by closing the request as well. It was timing out without a 'request.end()' tagged to the bottom, T_T

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,416 Points

The code I have from this course uses https.get() not https.request().

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,416 Points

http.request() and https.request() are more general requests, say if you need to upload data for a POST request. Which means the request is left open for you do to that. From the docs:

"With http.request() one must always call req.end() to signify that you're done with the request - even if there is no data being written to the request body. "