I am developing a dashboard, I need to conect to a API and catch a Auth Token and afther that send info by using a HTTPS protocol. I use a Nodejs, and when I run my code I have the next error on the pm2 monit:

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND my.url/path
at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:67:26) {
errno: -3008,
code: 'ENOTFOUND',
syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
hostname: 'my.url/path'
}

I am developing a dashboard, I need to conect to a API and catch a Auth Token and afther that send info by using a HTTPS protocol. I use a Nodejs, and when I run my code I have the next error on the pm2 monit:

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND my.url.net/path
at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:67:26) {
errno: -3008,
code: 'ENOTFOUND',
syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
hostname: 'my.url.net/path'
}

Also here is my code where I made the request (Node.js):

const path = require('path');
require('dotenv').config({path: path.join('path','.env')});
const https     = require('https');
const database = require('./sql');
const fs         = require ('fs');

const user = process.env.USER;
const pwd  = PWD;
const host = 'https://my.url.net/extencio';
const host_1 = 'my.url.net/extention';

async function getLoginToken(pForce){

 if (login_token.Health && !pForce) { return login_token }

  //Creates the POST request
  const options = {
    protocol: 'https:',
    hostname: host_1,
    path: '/api/auth/token',
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        }
  };

  //Body of the POST request, contains the user and password
  const post_data = JSON.stringify({username: user, password: pwd});

Here is the rest of the code:

return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {

    const req = new https.request(options, (response) => {
      response.setEncoding('utf8');
      response.on('data', function(chunk){
        const output = JSON.parse(chunk);

        if(output.token){
          login_token.Health = true;
          login_token.Token  = output.token;
          resolve(login_token)
        }

        else{
          login_token.Health = false;
          login_token.Token  = '';
          resolve(login_token);
        }
        
      });
    });
    req.write(post_data);
    req.end();
    
    req.on('error', function(err) {
      console.log(err);
      login_token.Health = false;
      login_token.Token  = '';
      resolve(login_token)
    });
    
  });
}

• javascript
• node.js
• ssl
• npm
• https

• But you're not making any HTTP request anywhere in this code – Jeremy Thille Commented Jan 18, 2021 at 13:50
• Sorry I mean HTTPS – Eric0607 Commented Jan 18, 2021 at 13:55
• 1 But you're not making any HTTPS request anywhere in this code – Jeremy Thille Commented Jan 18, 2021 at 13:55
• I already did the question update – Eric0607 Commented Jan 18, 2021 at 14:01

3 Answers 3

Remove the protocol, and use domain names only for the host. For instance:

Wrong:

const host = 'https://my.url.net/extencio'
const path = '/api/auth/token'

Correct:

const host = 'my.url.net'
const path = '/extencio/api/auth/token'

See documentation for the http.request options.

It seems that is trying to getaddrinfo of the full url, instead of just the hostname. I would put hostname in option as only "my.url.net" and update path with the rest of the url.

@Eric0607 the error stackoverflow.com/questions/65810720/… you've provided is not showing anymore, I might've been too late to reply.

but in case you got "an invalid local cert SSL error", here is a fix I found that works for it. disable SSL check in your code, not recommended but it would work temporarily, turn it on after you're done or it can be risky.