Getting connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:80 when attempting HTTP request

Question

I am attempting to make a http request to news.google.com using the native node.js http module. I am getting the connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:80 error when I tried the following

var http = require('http');

var payload = JSON.stringify({
    name: 'John Smith',
    email: '[email protected]',
    resume: 'https://drive.google.com/open?id=asgsaegsehsehseh'
});

var options = {
    hostname: 'https://news.google.com',
    path: '/',
    method: 'GET'
};

var httpRequest = http.request(options, function(request, response) {
    console.log('STATUS', response.statusCode);
    response.setEncoding('utf8');

    response.on('data', function(chunk) {
        console.log('BODY:', chunk);
    });

    response.on('end', function() {
        console.log('No more data in response');
    });
});

httpRequest.on('error', function(e) {
    console.log('Error with the request:', e.message);
});

httpRequest.write(payload);
httpRequest.end();

Why am I getting this error?

I tried using the request npm module. And it worked!

Albur

Answer 1

In my case, issue was actually default behaviour of HTTP client that I was using, axios.

By default, axios redirects us to 127.0.0.1:80 if it doesn't find requested URL or http method(GET/POST/PUT). So better check your URL if are also using axios.

Madame

Thanks for your help. inside server of reactjs (ssr.tsx) the Axios url was not correct. – Squier

If you're using nextjs, and using the same function to fetch data on client side and server side using relative url, it might not work on the server side. You need to give an absolute path on the server side. On client side, Axios automatically gets window url. – Forgiving

Answer 2

My problem was while using supertest and jest. My mistake was not putting "/" as a prefix to some url. So, double check if the url for the request you are making is proper.

Punctate

Had the same experience. Forgot a leading '/' before doing the request with supertest and jest. Dziekuje bardzo. – Toile

for some weird reason, this works for me. thank God and stack overflow. – Rooky

I missed the leading "/" myself. This helped. Thanks – Kerin

I had the leading / but mistakenly also had an unnecessary .. Thank you! – Forbis

I made the same mistake, This helped me. Thank you! – Flitting

Mine was the same. Thanks a lot – Engine

this saved me hours of debugging... – Paving

Answer 3

I'm using axios and this error occurred with get request, solved it by adding http:// before my URL (in my case the server is http)

Lowbrow

Answer 4

There are several issues here:

1. The hostname field of the options structure should be just the host, not a URL. In your case it should just be 'news.google.com'.

2. The signature for the callback to the request method is function (response) -- yours is function (request, response). Lose the first parameter.

3. As written this will aways return an HTTP redirection to the https site. Replace var http = require('http'); with var https = require('https'); and then use https everywhere instead of http.

Dentifrice

Answer 5

I encountered this issue while using supertest and jest. I made the mistake of using ./users instead of /users as the url.

Crispate

Its common mistake when you give wrong path – Ripsaw

Its common issue when we use wrong path in http calls – Ripsaw

Answer 6

I had the same problem with jest and supertest. Just changed api/blogs to /api/blogs and it worked !

Plainsong

Answer 7

I had the same problem. Solve it by fixing the HTTP request path mistake in my code.

Louettalough

Answer 8

I had this problem, and my solution (That might not be the same for most people) was that the server was not listening yet, I had to call the axios function after.

Locus

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Answer 9

store the root url in some variable or environtment and append it before request so instead of axios.get('/api/myurl') do something like let baseUrl = 'https://google.com"

axios.get(baseUrl + '/api/myurl')

Silicon

Answer 10

Another cause for this error could be that in your code, you might be referring to an environment variable as:

const localhostUrl = process.env.LOCALHOST_URL;

Whilst, not having this variable defined, (as expected), in your .env file as:

LOCALHOST_URL = http://localhost:8000/

Capeskin

Answer 11

I also got same error when when using supertest and jest. fix was adding prefix "/" to the url.

Churchwell

Answer 12

This error could also be caused by a prerender error according to Next.js 13 documentation.

In my case, I was assuming all values existed, instead of setting a fallback value which should be null.

So I changed:

{articles.map((article) => {
return (
<div key = {article.id}>
<h1>{article.title}</>
</>
)
})}

TO:

{articles ? articles.map((article) => {
return (
<div key = {article.id}>
<h1>{article.title}</>
</>
)
}): null}

Unfortunately, this error did not show up at build time, it showed only after deploying to Vercel.

Itu