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Isa
Isa

Reputation: 159

Localhost not responding to simple node application

I am new to using node and I am trying to write a simple application (see below) however when I try to access it in my browser it simply loads forever and nothing ever happens. Does anyone know how to fix this? I looked at a few websites and other tutorials but nothing has worked so far. I was told to navigate to this link: http://localhost:8080/?data=put_some_text_here

Here is the code:

    //include http module, add url module for parsing
    var http = require("http"),
        url = require("url");

    //create the server
    http.createServer(function(request, response) {
      //attach listener on end event
      request.on('end', function() {
        //parse the request for arguements and store them in _get variable
        //this function parses the url form request and returns obj representation
        var _get = url.parse(request.url, true).query;
        //write headers to the response
        response.writeHead(200, {
         'Content-Type': 'text/plain'
        });
        //send data and end response.
        response.end('Here is your data: ' + _get['data']);  
      });
    }).listen(8080);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1288

Answers (2)

user3727813
user3727813

Reputation: 1

You`re attach listener on end event but not fire this event.

//include http module, add url module for parsing
var http = require("http"),
    url = require("url");

//create the server
http.createServer(function(request, response) {

    //parse the request for arguements and store them in _get variable
    //this function parses the url form request and returns obj representation
    var _get = url.parse(request.url, true).query;
    //write headers to the response
    response.writeHead(200, {
        'Content-Type': 'text/plain'
    });

    //send data and end response.
    response.end('Here is your data: ' + _get['data']);

    //attach listener on end event
    request.on('end', function() {
        //you can do something here
        console.log('Event: Request End', request.url);
    });

}).listen(8080);

Upvotes: 0

mscdex
mscdex

Reputation: 106698

You're not reading any data from the request, so your end event handler will never get called, meaning you never end the response. If you don't care about the request data, you could simply do request.resume(); right before request.on('end', ...);

Upvotes: 1

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