Using node.js HTTP remote client request doesn't return any body

Question

I\'m using node.js to download a webpage. However, it\'s not receiving any chunks of data:

    console.log(\'preparing request to \' + url)
    u = require(\'url         


        

Answer 1

This is an example which always worked for me:

var sys = require('sys'),
    http = require('http');

var connection = http.createClient(8080, 'localhost'),
    request = connection.request('/');

connection.addListener('error', function(connectionException){
    sys.log(connectionException);
});

request.addListener('response', function(response){
    var data = '';

    response.addListener('data', function(chunk){ 
        data += chunk; 
    });
    response.addListener('end', function(){
        // Do something with data.
    });
});

request.end();