Insecure requests time out

[kunaakos]

Whenever I'm running any code that involves an insecure (http) request, it times out. I have no issues making https requests. I was thinking it must be some vscode/electron restriction, but the same code works with the Quokka.js extension, in the same version of vscode, for example.

[axilleasiv]

Hello, @kunaakos thank you so much for your feedback. I did not succeed to reproduce this. I used the following code in order to simulate an http request in two ways by using the axios library and by using the node.js's http module. Both are working properly.

const http = require('http');
const axios = require('axios');

const url = 'http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1';

http.get(url, res => {
  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  let body = '';
  res.on('data', data => {
    body += data;
  });
  res.on('end', () => {
    body = JSON.parse(body);
    console.log(body);
  });
});

const getData = async url => {
  try {
    const response = await axios.get(url);
    const data = response.data;
    console.log(data);
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
};

getData(url);

Can you please help me to reproduce this issue by sharing a minimal example that is not working,
for you?

[kunaakos]

Hi! Thanks for the quick reply! I dived into the settings, and found the execution context option. Setting that to 'node' solved my issue, but now it works even if I switch back 🤷‍♂️

Adding a snippet:

const http = require('http')

http
	.get(
		'http://resolvesto.local.address',
		(resp) => {
			let data = ''
			resp.on('data', (chunk) => data += chunk)
			resp.on('end', () => console.log(data))
		}
	)
	.on(
		'error',
		(err) => console.log("Error: " + err.message)
	)

This one hung, too, but if I switched to 'https' and a https address it worked.

Anyhoo, it seems to work now with more complex libraries, too, and tbh I'm blown away.

[kunaakos]

UPDATE: Right after I posted the above it stopped working again, so yes, I can confirm that the above example works with the 'node' execution context setting , but not with 'VM'.

[axilleasiv]

Hi again! I don't know, maybe it has to do with the response of the request, it is very weird that the following example is working with the VM context option in settings for me.

const http = require('http');
const url = 'http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1';

http.get(url, res => {
  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  let body = '';
  res.on('data', data => {
    body += data;
  });
  res.on('end', () => {
    body = JSON.parse(body);
    console.log(body);
  });
});

I will keep this issue open for further investigation. Thanks again for your feedback.