net Node.js Error: read ECONNRESET (on Windows)

Question

I am attempting to use the net lib in Node.js to do simple message passing. In the example on Nodejs.org they provide the following code as a basic echo server:

var net = require('net');
var server = net.createServer(function(c) { //'connection' listener
  console.log('server connected');
  c.on('end', function() {
    console.log('server disconnected');
  });
  c.write('hello\r\n');
  c.pipe(c);
});
server.listen(8124, function() { //'listening' listener
  console.log('server bound');
});

and a client for said server:

var net = require('net');
var client = net.connect({port: 8124},
    function() { //'connect' listener
  console.log('client connected');
  client.write('world!\r\n');
});
client.on('data', function(data) {
  console.log(data.toString());
  client.end();
});
client.on('end', function() {
  console.log('client disconnected');
});

The example above works, however, if you remove the client.end(); from the client code and force close the script on the client end (simulating a client crashing) the server crashes as well with the error:

Error: read ECONNRESET
    at errnoException (net.js:904:11)
    at TCP.onread (net.js:558:19)

I attempted to catch the error in the server code with c.on("error",function(){}) as well as server.on('error', function (e) {}); but in both cases the server still crashes when the client disconnects without using client.end()

What is the propper way of checking for this error so that the server does a console.log('connection reset by peer') instead of crashing?

UPDATE: I tried this same code on my linux box and it seems to work just fine ... so why does it work in linux but not in windows?

Answer 1

you can catch that error by adding this code inside yours 'createServer' function:

process.on('uncaughtException', function (err) {
    console.error(err.stack);
    console.log("Node NOT Exiting...");
});