ESOCKETTIMEDOUT error

The issue is occurring on my colleague’s machine who is offshore (India time). I am submitting this issue on his behalf. Due to the time discrepancy, responses may be slow. However this is a blocking issue for our team since we are trying to convert to using Cypress and TDD as a team thus we need the environment to be working on all machines before beginning our new work. I’ve googled this issue and tried diagnosing/solving it but so far no luck.

Additional Info (images, stack traces, etc)

Console was cleared
cypress_runner.js:136628 Command:   visit
cypress_runner.js:136628 Error:     CypressError: cy.visit() failed trying to load:

http://localhost:9000/

We attempted to make an http request to this URL but the request failed without a response.

We received this error at the network level:

  > Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT

Common situations why this would fail:
  - you don't have internet access
  - you forgot to run / boot your web server
  - your web server isn't accessible
  - you have weird network configuration settings on your computer

The stack trace for this error is:

Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (C:\Data\Testing\cypress\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\request\request.js:778:19)
    at ClientRequest.g (events.js:286:16)
    at emitNone (events.js:86:13)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:185:7)
    at Socket.emitTimeout (_http_client.js:614:10)
    at Socket.g (events.js:286:16)
    at emitNone (events.js:86:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:185:7)
    at Socket._onTimeout (net.js:334:8)
    at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:232:11)
    at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:202:5)


Because this error occurred during a 'before each' hook we are skipping the remaining tests in the current suite: 'Enter BAC Details Wizard Forms'
cypress_runner.js:136628 Snapshot:  The snapshot is missing. Displaying current state of the DOM.

• Operating System: Windows 7
• Cypress Version: 1.0.3
• Browser Version: 62

[thomasleveil]

For me I had a webserver which failed if it could not find the “Accept-Encoding” header.

Fixed with :

cy.visit(url, {
  headers: {
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate"
  }
})

[leonfs]

We’ve fixed the problem by adding a request header (Connection: "Keep-Alive") to the visit command.