contentful.getEntries() throws "Error: unexpected end of file at Zlib._handle.onerror (zlib.js:370:17)"

• Node Version: v6.9.4
• Npm Version: 3.10.10
• Platform: Linux 2109406ca117 4.4.16-boot2docker #1 SMP Fri Jul 29 00:13:24 UTC 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Official debian:jessie-slim image from https://hub.docker.com/_/debian/)
• Package Version: contentful@3.8.0

I am building within a Docker container pulled from the official debian:jessie-slim image, with Node v6.9.4 installed from http://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x. I have been getting the following error on on ~90% builds:

root@2109406ca117:/investors# node app.js
events.js:160
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: unexpected end of file
    at Zlib._handle.onerror (zlib.js:370:17)

The simplest code to reproduce this issue is below; interestingly, when the client.getContentTypes() call is removed, the error occurs with noticeably less frequency:

const contentful = require('contentful');

let client = contentful.createClient({
  accessToken: '',
  space: ''
});

client.getContentTypes().then(values => {
  client.getEntries({content_type: 'page'}).then(entries => console.log(entries));
});

From what I can tell, this seems to be an issue when chunks of data are dropped from gzipped responses and/or gzip response aren’t properly deflated. This would seem to align with the reduced error rate when the additional API call is removed. Here are a few issues that reported similar issues, with fixes referenced:

• https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios/issues/435
• https://github.com/request/request/issues/2197
• https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8701

Some solutions have included more lenient gzip decompression, and providing an option to disable gzip.

[Khaledgarbaya]

@andrewodri any time, I will close this issue for and feel free to create a new issue whenever you have a problem to report

[Khaledgarbaya]

Hi @andrewodri , This is really weird I never seen this happening, I will try to reproduce this using Docker and come back to you asap, but mostly could be related to axios. Best, Khaled