Node-request - How to determine if an error occurred during the request?

Question

I\'m trying to leverage the node-request module, but the documentation isn\'t that great. If I make a request to a valid resource and pipe it to a Writable Stream, everythin

Answer 1

@Mikeal solution looks great, but may have some problem with the piping (first few bytes can be missed). Hee is an updated code:

var r = request(url)
r.pipe(new WritableStream());
r.on('response', function (resp) {
   resp.headers 
   resp.statusCode
   // Handle error case and remove your writablestream if need be.
})