https.get hangs with mtgox.com

[nponeccop]

The code below works with google.com and many other servers, but fails with mtgox in 0.4.9. Chrome. Firefox and wget work. The host seem to use a rare RC4/MD5 algorithms so this may be a problem. Even if mtgox does something wrong, the code should emit error and not hang.

var https = require('https');

https.get({ host: 'mtgox.com', path: '/' }, function(res) {
  console.log('get ok')
  res.on('data', function(d) {
    console.log('chunk');
  });

  res.on('end', function() {
    console.log('end');
  });
}).on('error', function(e) {
  console.error(e);
});

[bnoordhuis]

Confirmed with current master.

$ NODE_DEBUG="net http" ./node_g tmp/issue1302.js
HTTP: Agent _cycle sockets=0 queue=1
HTTP: Agent _cycle sockets=1 queue=1
HTTP: Agent found socket, shift
HTTP: Agent _cycle sockets=1 queue=0
HTTP: outgoing message end.
NET: connecting to 72.52.5.67 : 443
NET: wrote 121 bytes to socket.
NET: [fd, off, len] = [6,0,121]
NET: socket 6 received 5420 bytes
NET: wrote 310 bytes to socket.
NET: [fd, off, len] = [6,0,310]
NET: socket 6 received 43 bytes
HTTP: Agent _getConnection callback
HTTP: Agent _cycle sockets=1 queue=0
NET: wrote 75 bytes to socket.
NET: [fd, off, len] = [6,0,75]

The client receives 5463 of 6144 bytes and then stalls.

[peroksid]

Simply add user agent header.

[bnoordhuis]

Right, that works. Here's an updated example:

var headers = {'User-Agent':'Mozilla/3.0 WebTV/1.2 (compatible; MSIE 2.0)'}; // <3

require('https').get({host:'mtgox.com', headers:headers}, function(res) {
  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  res.on('data', console.error);
});

No sense in accommodating every half-assed HTTP server implementation out there. Closing.