Request not being executed

Operating System: macOS Mojave 10.4.5

Platform: Electron 5.0.6

Curl: curl 7.65.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin18.6.0) libcurl/7.65.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2s zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 c-ares/1.15.0 libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.39.1 librtmp/2.3 Release-Date: 2019-06-05 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS brotli GSS-API HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz Metalink NTLM NTLM_WB SPNEGO SSL TLS-SRP UnixSockets

Installed with the command: npm_config_curl_static_build=true npm_config_runtime=electron npm_config_target=$(yarn --silent electron --version) npm_config_disturl=https://atom.io/download/atom-shell yarn add node-libcurl

I’m trying to make node-libcurl work with no success. After reading the instructions to install the package for Electron (see above), and executing the following:

const { Curl } = require('node-libcurl');
 
const curl = new Curl();
 
console.log(curl);
curl.setOpt('URL', 'www.google.com');
curl.setOpt('FOLLOWLOCATION', true);
 
curl.on('end', function (statusCode, data, headers) {
  console.info(statusCode);
  console.info('---');
  console.info(data.length);
  console.info('---');
  console.info(this.getInfo( 'TOTAL_TIME'));
  
  this.close();
});
 
curl.on('error', curl.close.bind(curl));
curl.perform();

the end callback is not being triggered, but if I put the same code under a basic Node app it works perfectly.

[vierarb]

To make it work with Electron, the library versions when executing curl --version and node -p process.versions must be the same, specifically brotli, OpenSSL, nghttp2 and zlib, as said in the documentation.

curl --version

curl 7.65.3 (x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0) libcurl/7.65.3 OpenSSL/1.1.1c zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 c-ares/1.15.0 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.39.2
Release-Date: 2019-07-19
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS brotli GSS-API HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz Metalink NTLM NTLM_WB PSL SPNEGO SSL TLS-SRP UnixSockets

node -p process.versions

{
  node: '12.8.1',
  v8: '7.5.288.22-node.16',
  uv: '1.30.1',
  zlib: '1.2.11',
  brotli: '1.0.7',
  ares: '1.15.0',
  modules: '72',
  nghttp2: '1.39.2',
  napi: '4',
  llhttp: '1.1.4',
  http_parser: '2.8.0',
  openssl: '1.1.1c',
  cldr: '35.1',
  icu: '64.2',
  tz: '2019a',
  unicode: '12.1'
}

1. Update libraries

• brew upgrade c-ares
• brew upgrade nghttp2
• brew install openssl@1.1

2. Install cURL from source

I tried to install a few cURL packages from brew, but none worked, since there was no way to specify all flags I needed. Building cURL from source solved the problem. This is the configure options I used, the important ones are those that set a path.

./configure \
--disable-debug \
--disable-dependency-tracking \
--disable-silent-rules \
--with-libidn2 \
--with-nghttp2=/usr/local/opt/nghttp2 \
--with-ssl=/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1 \
--with-ca-bundle=/usr/local/etc/openssl@1.1/cert.pem \
--with-ca-path=/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/certs \
--enable-ares=/usr/local/opt/c-ares/lib \
--with-libssh2 \
--without-librtmp \
--with-gssapi \
--with-libmetalink

make && make install

3. Reinstall node to link the new versions we just installed in step 1.

4. Install node-libcurl

npm_config_build_from_source=true \
npm_config_runtime=electron \
npm_config_target=$(yarn --silent electron --version) \
npm_config_disturl=https://atom.io/download/atom-shell \
yarn add node-libcurl

Et voilà!

[JCMais]

Hey, glad you got it working! If possible can you post the steps you took to identify the problem and how you solved it? It would be great for others having the same problem.