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Imposible to catch an error

See original GitHub issue

Hi, I am having troubles trying to open a magnet URL with this code:

const torrentStream = require('torrent-stream')

var magnetUrl = "weird magnet url"

try {
  ts = torrentStream(magnetUrl)
} catch (e) {
  console.log('it is not happening')
}

It returns

/Users/jose.galisteo/work/fuse-torrent/node_modules/parse-torrent-file/node_modules/bencode/lib/decode.js:50
  throw new Error(
  ^

Error: Invalid data: Missing delimiter ":" [0x3a]
    at Function.decode.find (/Users/jose.galisteo/work/fuse-torrent/node_modules/parse-torrent-file/node_modules/bencode/lib/decode.js:50:9)
    at Function.decode.bytes (/Users/jose.galisteo/work/fuse-torrent/node_modules/parse-torrent-file/node_modules/bencode/lib/decode.js:103:23)
    at Function.decode.next (/Users/jose.galisteo/work/fuse-torrent/node_modules/parse-torrent-file/node_modules/bencode/lib/decode.js:33:30)
    at Object.decode (/Users/jose.galisteo/work/fuse-torrent/node_modules/parse-torrent-file/node_modules/bencode/lib/decode.js:19:17)
    at decodeTorrentFile (/Users/jose.galisteo/work/fuse-torrent/node_modules/parse-torrent-file/index.js:16:23)
    at parseTorrent (/Users/jose.galisteo/work/fuse-torrent/node_modules/torrent-stream/node_modules/parse-torrent/index.js:22:12)
    at /Users/jose.galisteo/work/fuse-torrent/node_modules/torrent-stream/index.js:621:21
    at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (internal/fs/read_file_context.js:53:3)

I have no problems opening other magnet URLs; the weird thing is that the problematic magnet URL works well on webtorrent.

I would like at least be able to catch the error. Any suggestion? I can share the magnet URL by PM