Really silly question about behavior of var req=http.request(), req.write() and req.end() in a POST request

[q2dg2b]

Hello friends

I want to send URL-encoded data via POST to a public server (http://www.posttestserver.com , do you knew it?)

If I do: curl -X POST -H "Content-Type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d "key1=value1" http://www.posttestserver.com/post.php , it works perfectly

But if I execute this code, it doesn't send anything:

var http = require("http")
var qs = require("querystring")
var data = { key1:"value1" }
var request = { hostname: "www.posttestserver.com", path:"/post.php", method: "POST", headers: {"content-type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"} }
var req = http.request(request, function(res) {   res.pipe(process.stdout)  })
req.write(qs.stringify(data))
req.end()


WHY???

Thanks!!

[mscdex]

On Sunday, August 17, 2014 5:34:51 AM UTC-4, q2dg2b wrote:

WHY???

Your code isn't wrong, the server you're testing with just doesn't seem to support `Transfer-Encoding: chunked`, since if you set a Content-Length, it works fine.

[q2dg2b]

YES!!! You were right!!!

Thanks a lot!!

I've changed the code like this and now it works!! Thanks!!

var http = require("http")
var qs = require("querystring")
var data = { key1:"value1" }

var dataQS = qs.stringify(data)

var request = { hostname: "www.posttestserver.com", path:"/post.php", method: "POST", headers: {"content-type":"application/

x-www-form-urlencoded", "content-length": Buffer.byteLength(dataQS)} }

var req = http.request(request, function(res) {   res.pipe(process.stdout)  })

req.write(dataQS)
req.end()