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JavaScript Node.js Basics (2014) Building a Command Line Application Handling Parsing and Status Code Errors

Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points
Posted by Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points

Why are the response.on methods not inside the if(response.statusCode == 200) {} statement?

Shouldn't the response.on methods only be called if the request actually sends a response in which case the statusCode will be 200?

Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points
Anish Walawalkar
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 Points

So just out of curiosity does the response object have a readyState value like in the case of AJAX or is that where the response.on('data'......) and response.on('end', ....) come in?

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

just because the response is not 200 does not mean there is no response. for example there can be a response of Not Found (404), which is not 200 but there is still a response