how to send my first HTTP request

[Saul Aguado]

Hi,

i just created my app and it seems it's running fine:

23 Dec 22:49:35 - Inside Node Virtual Machine
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Version: v0.8.26
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Owning user: 501
23 Dec 22:49:35 - User Changed: 501
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Checking for /etc
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Update /etc/resolve.conf with Googles DNS servers..
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Checking for /tmp
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Checking for /mnt
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Setting up sandbox..
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Munging require paths..
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Globalizing Buffer
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Reading startup file server.js...
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Final user check: 501
23 Dec 22:49:35 - Cloudnode wrapped script starting (16194) at Mon Dec 23 2013 22:49:35 GMT+0100 (UTC)
Servidor Iniciado

last line is a console.log("Servidor Iniciado")

my question is: how do i send requests to the server? (my server listens on the port 8888)

i tried: 

http://fiatedemi.cloudno.de:8888/addFriend?userName=saul&friend=hector

but i get nothing.. am i missing anything ?

[Hans J. Schroeder]

Just use the URL without a port. All apps are accessible on the standard port 80 from outside. 

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[Saul Aguado]

i just tried and nothing happens..

i am quite lost at that point:

my VM is listening all the ports ? how does it know wich port to use?

My server.js (the boot file) and server2.js (where the server is, called by server.js):

server.js:

//server.js

var server = require("./server2");

var router = require("./router");

var requestHandlers = require("./requestHandlers");

//handlers for incoming requests

var handle = {}

handle["/"] = requestHandlers.iniciar;

handle["/addFriend"] = requestHandlers.addFriend;

handle["/removeFriend"] = requestHandlers.removeFriend;

//start the server

server.iniciar(router.route, handle);

server2.js:

 

//server2.js

var http = require("http");

var url = require("url");

function iniciar(route, handle) {

  function onRequest(request, response) {

        var dataPosteada = "";

        var pathname = url.parse(request.url).pathname;

        request.setEncoding("utf8");

        request.addListener("data", function(trozoPosteado) {

          dataPosteada += trozoPosteado;

    });

    request.addListener("end", function() {

      route(request, handle, pathname, response, dataPosteada);

    });

  }

  http.createServer(onRequest).listen(8888);

  console.log("Servidor Iniciado");

}

exports.iniciar = iniciar;

[Saul Aguado]

ok.. i found it:

Internal Port

9557

i don't know how to change it so i am now listening on the 9557 and everything works fine..

thnx!!!

El lunes, 23 de diciembre de 2013 23:50:36 UTC+1, Saul Aguado escribió:

[Hans Schroeder]

Great.

Just to clarify. Your code must listen on the port that is reserved by the platform for your app, in your case 9557. 

There is an environment variable (app_port) for that. Normally you write something like:

.listen(process.env.app_port || 8080);

Then your app listens to port 8080 when running locally, but when deployed to the platform, it uses the environment variable that is automatically set 

to the correct port for your app. Web requests to your app happen always on the standard port 80. The routing grid proxies all requests the corresponding application

port (9557 in your case). The same goes for websocket connections.

- Hans