My First Node.js server : Failed to load resource: net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING
FIXING ISSUE #1: Infinite loop
You're missing an equal sign (or two) in your initial if()
.
Change
if (request.url = "/")
to
if (request.url == "/")
or
if (request.url === "/")
FIXING ISSUE #2: Failed to load resource: net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING
Your're missing a response.end()
in CASE #1.
// CASE #1
// if the user is on http://localhost:8080, load public/mysitename.html
if (request.url === "/")
{
fs.readFile('public/mysitename.html', function (err, html)
{
if (err)
{
response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
response.write('404 Not Found\n');
throw (err);
}
else
{
response.writeHeader(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"});
response.write(html);
}
response.end(); // <-- MISSING
});
}
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Kawd
Updated on August 30, 2022Comments
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Kawd over 1 year
The following server is supposed to :
CASE #1 : serve
mysitename.html
if the request ishttp://localhost:8080
CASE #2 : serve the relevant file if the request is e.g.
http://localhost:8080/mysitename.html
CASE #3 send me an email if the request is
http://localhost:8080/contactform?name=..&..&...etc.
If I visit
http://localhost:8080/mysitename.html
everything works fine.mysitename.html
is loaded and then all subsequent content (.js, .css, .png etc.) is loaded through it.PROBLEM : However, if I visit
http://localhost:8080
, the following happens :- I get a Failed to load resource: net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING error on the browser's (Chrome) console.
- `mysitename.html' appears corrupted on the client. Parts of the DOM are missing and when I try to view the source page, it just hangs and never actually loads. Loading only part of the DOM is weird given that all DOM elements of this file are static/hardcoded.
- What's confusing is that the rest of the content (.js, .css etc..) is loaded but nothing actually shows because of the corrupted .html. Is it possible that CASE#1 is interrupted by CASE#2 that follows right after it? What exactly am I doing wrong ?
CASE#2 initially had an error which was causing an infinite loop found by Johnny Estilles (see his answer below). This has since been fixed but the issues mentioned above now occur.
server.js
// setting up email handler var nodemailer = require('nodemailer'); var emailHandlerService = 'Gmail'; var emailHandlerAddress = ******; var emailHandlerPassword = ******; var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({ service: emailHandlerService, auth: { user: emailHandlerAddress, pass: emailHandlerPassword } }); // setting up http server var http = require('http'); var fs = require('fs'); var url = require("url"); var path = require("path"); var rootDir = __dirname + "/public"; var mimeTypes = { "html": "text/html", "jpeg": "image/jpeg", "jpg": "image/jpeg", "png": "image/png", /* Even though the js mime type is set as well, scripts are still sent as "text/plain" according to the Chrome console. Why is that ? */ "js": "application/javascript", "css": "text/css", "ico": "image/ico" }; // initializing server var httpServer = http.createServer(function (request, response) { // CASE #1 // if the user is on http://localhost:8080, load public/mysitename.html if (request.url === "/") { fs.readFile('public/mysitename.html', function (err, html) { if (err) { response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); response.write('404 Not Found\n'); throw (err); } else { response.writeHeader(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"}); response.write(html); } }); } // CASE #2 // else if this is a contact form data request // forward the data to my email (I'll make a more precise Regex for the request) else if (/contactform/.test(request.url)) { var parsedURL = url.parse(request.url, true); var name = parsedURL.query.name; var email = parsedURL.query.email; var subject = parsedURL.query.subject; var enquiry = parsedURL.query.enquiry; var browser = parsedURL.query.browsername + " " + parsedURL.query.browserversion; transporter.sendMail({ from: emailHandlerAddress, to: emailHandlerAddress, subject: subject, text: "|| NAME = " + name + " || EMAIL = " + email + " || BROWSER = " + browser + " || DEVICE = " + parsedURL.query.device + " || ENQUIRY = " + enquiry }); response.end(JSON.stringify(parsedURL.query)); } // CASE #3 // if none of the above is true then this is a request to serve static files else { var pathname = url.parse(request.url).pathname; var filename = path.join(rootDir, pathname); fs.exists(filename, function (exists) { if (!exists) { fs.readFile('public/404.html', function (err, html) { if (err) { response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); response.write('404 Not Found\n'); throw (err); } else { response.writeHeader(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"}); response.write(html); } response.end(); }); } else { var requestedFileExtension = path.extname(filename).split(".")[1]; var mimeType = mimeTypes[requestedFileExtension] || 'text/plain'; // as I noted above, this doesn't seem to have any effect // for my .js files response.writeHead(200, mimeType); var fileStream = fs.createReadStream(filename); fileStream.pipe(response); } }); } }).listen(8080);
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Kawd over 9 yearsThis has now been fixed, thanks. Please see my updated post with the new problems that are occurring since fixing this.
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Kawd over 9 yearsThanks for that. I actually used
response.end(html);
instead, inside theelse
block. Do I also have to doresponse.end();
inside theif
block right afterthrow (err);
or doesthrow (err);
handle that ?