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: 'john.smith@smith.com',
    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!

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.

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.

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)

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.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

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

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.

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')

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/

Answer 11

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