error running speed-test: "Cannot read property 'settings' of null"

I get the following when I run speed-test. It appears to be a problem with speedtest-net, no?

$ speed-test
events.js:141
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'settings' of null
    at gotServers (~/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:465:22)
    at ~/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:43:22
    at ~/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:226:13
    at Parser.<anonymous> (~/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:483:18)
    at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
    at Parser.emit (events.js:169:7)
    at Parser.exports.Parser.Parser.parseString (~/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:493:16)
    at Parser.parseString (~/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:7:59)
    at exports.parseString (~/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:534:19)
    at ~/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules/speed-test/node_modules/speedtest-net/index.js:224:9

[brettmarl]

Yeah - for some reason the old speedtest.net URL to obtain servers from is returning 200 OK and an empty response.

http://www.speedtest.net/speedtest-servers-static.php

oddly - if you add a parameter, like:

http://www.speedtest.net/speedtest-servers-static.php?x=y

it returns a valid server set. weird - i wonder if the 200-blank response is getting cached somewhere.

If anyone needs a work around for now, you can initialize your speed test object this way:

    test = speedTest({
        maxTime: 15000,
        serversUrl: 'http://www.speedtest.net/speedtest-servers-static.php?r=' + Math.random()
    });

Hopefully this self-recovers in a day or two.

[ddsol]

Thanks for the debugging. If it occurs again I’ll add a random parameter.