Express 3.0.1

[sirganya]

Hi,

When I use Express with RoutingProxy I get

proxy.error: Error: socket hang up

using node 0.8.2.

I've been at it for a few hours and was wondering if the problem is with connect and express and if it was workable or if I should just downgrade the packages.

Sorry for the vagueness. I can post more details if someone thinks it's worthwhile.

Thanks

[mmalecki]

Need more details and code. This error means that backend server didn't respond in timely fashion or that connection was closed forcefully.

[sirganya]

I should have replied to myself, it turned out to be the issue covered here previously with express doing non standard things to the body. After a lot of hair pulling I've decided to abandon http-proxy. It seems that I'm going to run into problems combining express with nodejitsu software. I've spent a few days debating wether to move to flatiron but it seems that express is favored so I've bet the house on that. I like that flatiron seems to be closer to the ideals of node but I've been swayed by the very few comparisons I can find online. If anyone here would like to throw their two cents in favor of flatiron I'd be very happy to hear them. I think the nodejitsu stuff is super solid but time is against me to allow me to learn and move to flatiron.

[indexzero]

@sirganya Thousands of express based apps run on nodejitsu which uses this library to proxy. There is no incompatibility between express and http-proxy

[sirganya]

I'm back with this issue again....
express@2.5.11
formidable@1.0.14
http-proxy@0.10.2
node v0.10.5

It proxies everything correctly except a POST with a body.

app.all('/ads*', function(req, res, next) {

    var buffer = httpProxy.buffer(req);

    proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, {
        host: 'localhost',
        port: 8003,
        buffer: buffer
    });

});

Formidable then gives this error.

Error: Request aborted
   at IncomingMessage.IncomingForm.parse (/git/sdl/node_modules/formidable/lib/incoming_form.js:107:19)
   at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:90:17)
   at abortIncoming (http.js:1661:11)
   at Socket.serverSocketCloseListener (http.js:1672:5)
   at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:123:20)
   at Socket._destroy.destroyed (net.js:357:10)
   at process.startup.processNextTick.process._tickCallback (node.js:244:9)

Here's the code from incoming_form.js lines 99 - 124

// Start listening for data.
  var self = this;
  req
    .on('error', function(err) {
      self._error(err);
    })
    .on('aborted', function() {
      self.emit('aborted');
      self._error(new Error('Request aborted'));
    })
    .on('data', function(buffer) {
      self.write(buffer);
    })
    .on('end', function() {
      if (self.error) {
        return;
      }

      var err = self._parser.end();
      if (err) {
        self._error(err);
      }
    });

  return this;
};

I had used connect-restreamer to fix it before, but it looks like it's not the issue anymore.

https://github.com/dominictarr/connect-restreamer

[sirganya]

found the answer here

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11295554/how-to-disable-express-bodyparser-for-file-uploads-node-js