Problem with redirect handling

[twleung]

var request = require('request');
request({uri:'http://plixi.com/p/95010942'}, function (error, response, body) {
console.log(error);
console.log(response.statusCode);
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
sys.puts(body) // Print the google web page.
}
})

plixi works via 302 redirect:
curl -v 'http://plixi.com/p/95243438' darwin-2.6

• About to connect() to plixi.com port 80 (#0)
• Trying 184.106.40.17... connected
• Connected to plixi.com (184.106.40.17) port 80 (#0)

  GET /p/95243438 HTTP/1.1
  User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
  Host: plixi.com
  Accept: /

  < HTTP/1.1 302 Found
  < Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:01:15 GMT
  < Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
  < X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.14
  < Location: http://m.plixi.com/p/95243438
  < Vary: Accept-Encoding
  < Content-Length: 0
  < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
  <
• Connection #0 to host plixi.com left intact
• Closing connection #0

Somewhere something is going wrong with redirect handling...

[EvanCarroll]

Can you verify that you're not POSTing or PUTing to the destination responding with the 302?

[twleung]

I am not POSTING or PUTing.

[EvanCarroll]

Well, firstly this seems like a 301 Redirrect to me

$ curl -i http://plixi.com/p/95010942
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/0.8.8
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 22:03:20 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Connection: keep-alive
Location: http://lockerz.com/s/95010942
Content-Length: 311

And, it seems like it isn't redirecting to the Google Homepage, but to lockerz.com.

var request = require('request');
request({uri:'http://plixi.com/p/95010942'}, function (error, response, body) {
  console.log(error);
  console.log(response.statusCode);
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    console.log(body.match(/<title>(.*)<\/title>/)[0])
  }
})

It seems to work

null
200
<title>Lockerz.com .:. Benjamin Black's Photos - ...</title>

Try to update your copy of Request.. npm install request.

[kai5263499]

I get an exception when I try to visit http://google.com, here's my output:

Querying url with opts: {"uri":"http://google.com","followRedirect":true,"headers":{"User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.60 Safari/534.24"}}

node.js:183
        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
        ^
Error: This request has been piped before http.request() was called.
    at [object Object].end (/usr/src/request/main.js:315:24)
    at Array.<anonymous> (/usr/src/request/main.js:298:15)
    at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:175:26)

Seems redirect-related but the strange thing is that some redirects succeed while others fail.

[mikeal]

I'm 99% sure this is fixed now.