From 41c815340f7e9e2ba3536f10204d6a89fe3520fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Dias <daviddias.p@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:37:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: handle missing daemon errors

---
 examples/files-api/files-api.js | 4 ++--
 src/request-api.js              | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/examples/files-api/files-api.js b/examples/files-api/files-api.js
index a8038bcde..f0b92318a 100644
--- a/examples/files-api/files-api.js
+++ b/examples/files-api/files-api.js
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 'use strict'
 
-var ipfs = require('../src')('localhost', 5001)
+var ipfs = require('../../src')('localhost', 5001)
 
 ipfs.files.ls('/folder1', function (err, res) {
   if (err) {
-    return console.log(err)
+    return console.log('got an error', err)
   }
   if (res.readable) {
     res.pipe(process.stdout)
diff --git a/src/request-api.js b/src/request-api.js
index 0b65e476e..5eb150269 100644
--- a/src/request-api.js
+++ b/src/request-api.js
@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ function requestAPI (config, options, callback) {
     headers: headers
   }, onRes(options.buffer, callback))
 
+  req.on('error', (err) => {
+    callback(err)
+  })
+
   if (options.files) {
     stream.pipe(req)
   } else {