TypeError: Cannot call method 'emit' of undefined when using http.get()

[cakebaker]

I have the following code:

var http = require('http');

var options = { host: 'www.cnbc.com',
                port: 80,
                path: '/id/41863659/',
                headers: { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux x86_64)' } };

http.get(options, function (res) {
    console.log('success');
}).on('error', function (e) {
    console.log('error');
});

When I run this script, I get the following error after the output of "success":

node.js:116
    throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
    ^
TypeError: Cannot call method 'emit' of undefined
    at Socket.<anonymous> (http.js:1174:9)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:42:17)
    at Array.<anonymous> (net.js:799:27)
    at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:108:26)

I don't know what's going wrong, as the script works fine with other URLs...

I'm using node.js 0.4.2.

[naneau]

I'm experiencing the same issue. It seems to happen when I fire two requests in quick succession.

Offending code (in 0.4.2) at https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/v0.4.2/lib/http.js#L1174 , where req remains null.

[davinlior]

I too am experiencing this issue with my local webserver when using

{host:'127.0.0.1', ... }

Of course when I browse to 127.0.0.1 in my web browser everything looks fine.

N.B. While node crashes in trying to connect to the localhost webserver, the webserver logs the connection.

Also using 0.4.2

[davinlior]

I'm pretty sure I found the reason for this: node doesn't handle the absence of a Content-Length header well on normal/default Transfer-Encoding.

I explained it here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5286968/node-js-process-nexttick-error/5328515#5328515

[ry]

mailing list topic: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/kYnfJZeqGZ4/discussion

[stephank]

Here's a patch which solved the problem for us: #803

[ry]

Fix double free of parser on error in http.Agent.

Thanks to Stéphan Kochen for the fix and Maurice Fonk for reproducing the
bug.

Closed by 66570c1.
Closed by 66570c1.