127.0.0.1:0 causes exception in io.js@2

[stevenvachon]

request lib also has this issue: request/request#1596

[floatdrop]

@stevenvachon hm... I get this error only on iojs@2, but not in IOjs@1.8.2, Node 0.10 or 0.12. Also only 127.0.0.1:0 host is throwing error, which is pretty strange.

[sindresorhus]

Is there an io.js ticket for this? If not, can you open one? I don't see how this is relevant to got though. We're just a consumer of the HTTP API.

[stevenvachon]

var req = require("http").request({hostname:"127.0.0.1",port:0});
req.on("error",function(e){throw e});

does not produce the same error

[julien-f]

Again, for me it makes no sense to attempt to connect to port 0…

[stevenvachon]

It doesn't, and is the cause of dev error. But should it throw an error when all other errors are passed in the callback (in "request" and "got" libs)

[julien-f]

Ahhh, I understand now!

Indeed it would make sense for all errors to be async.

[sindresorhus]

Seems like it's fixed in Node 4:

❯ node -e 'require("./")("http://127.0.0.1:0", err => console.error(err));'     
{ [RequestError: connect EADDRNOTAVAIL 127.0.0.1 - Local (0.0.0.0:65229)]
  message: 'connect EADDRNOTAVAIL 127.0.0.1 - Local (0.0.0.0:65229)',
  code: 'EADDRNOTAVAIL',
  host: '127.0.0.1:0',
  hostname: '127.0.0.1',
  method: 'GET',
  path: '/' }