Node.js getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND

Question

When using Node.js to try and get the html content of the following web page:

eternagame.wikia.com/wiki/EteRNA_Dictionary

I get the following error:

events.js:72     throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event           ^ Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND     at errnoException (dns.js:37:11)     at Object.onanswer [as oncomplete] (dns.js:124:16) 

I did already look up this error on stackoverflow, and realized that this is because node.js cannot find the server from DNS (I think). However, I am not sure why this would be, as my code works perfectly on www.google.com.

Here is my code (practically copied and pasted from a very similar question, except with the host changed):

var http = require("http");  var options = {     host: 'eternagame.wikia.com/wiki/EteRNA_Dictionary' };  http.get(options, function (http_res) {     // initialize the container for our data     var data = "";      // this event fires many times, each time collecting another piece of the response     http_res.on("data", function (chunk) {         // append this chunk to our growing `data` var         data += chunk;     });      // this event fires *one* time, after all the `data` events/chunks have been gathered     http_res.on("end", function () {         // you can use res.send instead of console.log to output via express         console.log(data);     }); }); 

Here is the source where I copied and pasted from : How to make web service calls in Expressjs?

I am not using any modules with node.js.

Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

In Node.js HTTP module's documentation: http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback

You can either call http.get('http://eternagame.wikia.com/wiki/EteRNA_Dictionary', callback), the URL is then parsed with url.parse(); or call http.get(options, callback), where options is

{   host: 'eternagame.wikia.com',   port: 8080,   path: '/wiki/EteRNA_Dictionary' } 

Update

As stated in the comment by @EnchanterIO, the port field is also a separate option; and the protocol http:// shouldn't be included in the host field. Other answers also recommends the use of https module if SSL is required.