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I have a very simple nodejs program that I am using to demonstrate communication with the Alchemer API. Whenever I run the following code, an error is thrown with the code ECONNREFUSED. However, when I copy the same url into the browser or Postman, it works just fine.

Note- One odd thing I noticed, in the error's stack-trace (see below), it says the address is 127.0.0.1, even though I'm clearly not making a request to my localhost...

Nodejs Snippet

require('dotenv').config();
const https = require('https');
const querystring = require('querystring');

console.log('Formulating query string...');

const params = {
    api_token: process.env.API_TOKEN,
    api_token_secret: process.env.API_TOKEN_SECRET
};

const reqArgs = querystring.stringify(params);

console.log('Query string: ', reqArgs);

const reqOptions  = {
    url: 'https://api.alchemer.com',
    path: '/v5/survey?' + reqArgs,
}

console.log('Test Url: ', reqOptions.url + reqOptions.path); // THIS WORKS IN THE 
BROWSER / POSTMAN
console.log('Getting data...');

https.request(reqOptions, resp => {
    let data = '';

    resp.on('data', chunk => {
        data += chunk;
    });

    resp.on('error', err => {
        console.error(JSON.stringify(err));
    });

    resp.on('end', () => {
        console.log('Request complete.');
        console.log(data);
    });
});

Error Observed

events.js:292
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:443
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1146:16)
Emitted 'error' event on ClientRequest instance at:
    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:469:9)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:106:8)
    at emitErrorCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:74:3)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21) {
  errno: -61,
  code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  syscall: 'connect',
  address: '127.0.0.1',
  port: 443
}
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URL does not appear to be the correct property name for setting your URL in the request options, according to the https.requests doc here.

Consider changing the url key on your reqOptions to hostname or host

const reqOptions  = {
    hostname: 'https://api.alchemer.com',
    path: '/v5/survey?' + reqArgs,
}
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  • Thank you! This resolved my ECONNREFUSED error, but now I am receiving a ECONNRESET after a several second delay. As I mentioned, the generated url works just fine in the browser and postman, yet this nodejs library keeps giving me new errors... – Reilly Feb 22 '21 at 01:21