“Socket hang up” error during request

Question

I try to make a GET request to some site (not mine own site) via http module of node.js version 0.8.14. Here is my code (CoffeeScript):

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Answer 1

When upgrading from 0.10.33 to 0.12 of nodejs, this error was hit.

In my case, there was a body (json) for the delete request. Earlier, node client was setting - 'transfer-encoding' as chunked - by default when 'content-length' is not set. It seems in recent version - node client stopped setting transfer-encoding by default.

Fix was to set it in the request.