Node: http.request post method not responding with no error on callback

[danialkhansari]

I want to make a POST call to my REST API running on another port in my pc. The http.get method works fine but when I make a POST request the server returns no response or any error in callback. Here is my code:

server.route({
method:'POST',
path:'/path1',
handler: function(req, res){
    var post_data = querystring.stringify({
        'name': 'asd',
        'price': '123'
    });
    var options = {
        host: '127.0.0.1',
        port: 2000,
        path: '/apipath',
        method:'POST',
        header:{
            'Content-Type':'application/json',
            'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(post_data)
        }
    };


     var post_req = http.request(options, function(reply){
            console.log('222');
            reply.setEncoding('utf8');
            reply.on('data', function (body) {
                console.log('Body: ' + body);
        });
        post_req.write(post_data);
        post_req.end();
        res(reply);
        post_req.on('error', function(e) {
        console.error(e);
        });
    });

}
});

Node.js Version : 6.9.1 LTS
Platform: Windows 10

[evanlucas]

Is there a code snippet you can provide that does not use any external packages to exemplify the problem? Can you also fill in the version and platform info as well? Thanks!

[danialkhansari]

Sorry for the inconvenience, I updated my post with the code snippet.

[evanlucas]

It is hanging because you are not calling post_req.end() until the response callback is called (which it won't be called since you aren't ending the request)

Try replacing:

var post_req = http.request(options, function(reply){
  console.log('222');
  reply.setEncoding('utf8');
  reply.on('data', function (body) {
    console.log('Body: ' + body);
  });
  post_req.write(post_data);
  post_req.end();
  res(reply);
  post_req.on('error', function(e) {
    console.error(e);
  });
});

with

var post_req = http.request(options, function(reply){
  console.log('222');
  reply.setEncoding('utf8');
  reply.on('data', function (body) {
    console.log('Body: ' + body);
  });
  res(reply);
});

post_req.on('error', function(e) {
  console.error(e);
});
post_req.write(post_data);
post_req.end();

I'm going to go ahead and close since this doesn't seem to be an issue with core. Thanks!