Using node.js HTTP remote client request doesn't return any body

Question

I'm using node.js to download a webpage. However, it's not receiving any chunks of data:

    console.log('preparing request to ' + url)
    u = require('url').parse(url)
    var remote_client = http.createClient(80, u['host']);
    var request = remote_client.request("GET", u['pathname'], {"host": u['host']});
    console.log("request made")

    request.addListener('response', function (response) {
        response.setEncoding('binary') 
        var body = '';

        response.addListener('data', function (chunk) {
            body += chunk;
            console.log('chunk received')
        });
    });

The last console message is "request made". There are no console messages with "chunk received" or the like. Thoughts?

Answer 1

This is an example which always worked for me:

var sys = require('sys'),
    http = require('http');

var connection = http.createClient(8080, 'localhost'),
    request = connection.request('/');

connection.addListener('error', function(connectionException){
    sys.log(connectionException);
});

request.addListener('response', function(response){
    var data = '';

    response.addListener('data', function(chunk){ 
        data += chunk; 
    });
    response.addListener('end', function(){
        // Do something with data.
    });
});

request.end();