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Searene
Searene

Reputation: 27544

"socket hang up" on http.get

I got the error socket hang up when running the following script. But if I changed the host from www.google.com to www.nodejs.org, everything was working fine. Why?

var http = require('http');

var options = {
        host: 'www.google.com',
        port: 443,
        path: '/'
};
http.get(options, function(data) {
        console.log('OK');
        data.resume();
}).on('error', function(e) {
        console.log('Error: ' + e.message);
});

Upvotes: 0

Views: 662

Answers (1)

robertklep
robertklep

Reputation: 203231

www.google.com completely rejects non-HTTPS requests sent to its HTTPS server, and www.nodejs.org will not (it will, however, return a HTTP 400 status because you are making a plain HTTP request to a HTTPS server).

To make HTTPS requests, you need to use the https module:

var http = require('https');

Upvotes: 2

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