Node.js simple http request doesn't work

I wonder why such simple http request is not working...

http = require("http")

url = "http://nodejs.org/"

console.log "Try a request to #{url}..."
reqHttp = http.request url, (response) ->

    console.log "Request to #{url}"
    response.on 'data', (chunk) -> console.log "chunk: ", chunk 

reqHttp.on 'error', (error) -> console.log "reqHttp error", error

After a minute or so it returns:

reqHttp error { [Error: socket hang up] code: 'ECONNRESET' }

To make sure it is not a problem on my environment, I tried the request module and worked just fine:

request = require("request")

url = "http://nodejs.org/"

request url, (error, response, body) ->
  console.log body if not error and response.statusCode is 200

It seems I'm not the only one.

So, I have a workaround for my problem (using request module), but I'd like to know why I can't use the buind-in http request. Is it buggy or unreliable? (Node.js version 0.8.21)

OK, this is really simple. You are constructing an http request but did not finish sending it. From the link you gave itself:

req.write('data\n');   //Write some data into request
req.write('data\n');
req.end();             //Finish sending request let request go. Please do this

Since you never used req.end(), it hung up since it never got completed. Node reset the inactive request 

reqHttp error { [Error: socket hang up] code: 'ECONNRESET' }