Got: Cannot read property 'startsWith' of undefined

[cesargdm]

Describe the bug

• Node.js version: v10.15.3
• OS & version: macOS 10.15.1
  
  
  
  • Got: version 10.0.4
  
  

When trying to make a POST request to https://www.google.com I get an error using version 10.0.4 but getting back to version 9.0.4 returns a correct response.

Actual behavior

When trying to make a POST request to https://www.google.com I get the error

{ GotError: Cannot read property 'startsWith' of undefined
    at get (/Users/cesargdm/Development/Sites/fucesa-cloud/node_modules/got/dist/source/request-as-event-emitter.js:200:27)
    at urlToOptions (internal/url.js:1259:28)
    at Object.request (https.js:271:15)
    at Object.request (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/agent-base/patch-core.js:23:20)
    at get (/Users/cesargdm/Development/Sites/fucesa-cloud/node_modules/got/dist/source/request-as-event-emitter.js:197:43) code: undefined, name: 'RequestError' }

Expected behavior

Don't throw error,

Code to reproduce

got.post('https://www.google.com')

Checklist

• [x] I have read the documentation.
• [x] I have tried my code with the latest version of Node.js and Got.

[szmarczak]

I cannot reproduce: https://runkit.com/szmarczak/5df73664584fba001a4bfa10

[sindresorhus]

@cesargdm It would be helpful if you could submit a pull request with a failing tests.

[jacobjenks]

I'm also having this problem. It seems related to this issue https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/26198

[szmarczak]

Fix: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/26226/files

[apoorvans]

const response = await got("https://www.google.com");

The hello world of got is failing with with this error, using 10.5.5 with nodejs 10.16.0 on MacOS 10.15.2:

GotError: Cannot read property 'startsWith' of undefined\n at get (/Users/anon/WebstormProjects/artha/node_modules/got/dist/source/request-as-event-emitter.js:199:27)\n at urlToOptions (internal/url.js:1259:28)\n at Object.request (https.js:279:15)\n at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/anon/WebstormProjects/artha/node_modules/agent-base/patch-core.js:23:20)\n at get (/Users/anon/WebstormProjects/artha/node_modules/got/dist/source/request-as-event-emitter.js:196:65)

[szmarczak]

@apoorvans It's a bug in Node.js 10. The issue has been fixed >= Node.js 12.

[apoorvans]

@apoorvans It's a bug in Node.js 10. The issue has been fixed >= Node.js 12.

Thanks much @szmarczak, will try node 12.

[freewil]

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/26226 was backported to v10.x via https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/32446. It should be available >= 10.20.0 which is unreleased as of writing this message.

[artem-karpenko]

For all those coming here because of this somewhat ephemeral issue with got
The culprit is not a node version, but agent-base implementation visible in original stacktrace as well. It incorrectly clones URL which results in a later fail in internal node request code. The fix in Nodejs referenced above only fixes problem as in it provides a failsafe validation for URL - the request will still work incorrectly since url.hostname will not be present.

The real issue is that even though agent-base has been updated to fix the problem, proxy-agent (which uses it) was not - see https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-proxy-agent/issues/51. Solution for my case was to use npm-force-resolutions to override transitive dependency over agent-base in my project.

[vnenkpet]

@artem-karpenko Can you please explain what exactly have you done to fix this?

[vnenkpet]

It seems like Google Cloud Function's nodejs10 runtime updated it's version and now we can't deploy any service using got as they all fail, which is a pretty big issue for us. I don't understand this.