Reading content from URL with Node.js

Question

I\'m trying to read the content from a URL with Node.js but all I seem to get are a bunch of bytes. I\'m obviously doing something wrong but I\'m not sure what. This is the

Answer 1

try using the on error event of the client to find the issue.

var http = require('http');

var options = {
    host: 'google.com',
    path: '/'
}
var request = http.request(options, function (res) {
    var data = '';
    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
        data += chunk;
    });
    res.on('end', function () {
        console.log(data);

    });
});
request.on('error', function (e) {
    console.log(e.message);
});
request.end();