HEAD requests make "Error: unexpected end of file"

[Sangdol]

When I try to make a HTTP HEAD request, Newman makes an error:

Error: unexpected end of file
  at Zlib._handle.onerror (zlib.js:363:17)

The request works well in Postman. You can test it with this collection URL https://www.getpostman.com/collections/d5ec4973f044fe002171, which sends HEAD requests to google.com, github.com, and amazon.com.

$ newman -u https://www.getpostman.com/collections/d5ec4973f044fe002171

Thank you.

[czardoz]

Works fine for me:

newman -u https://www.getpostman.com/collections/d5ec4973f044fe00217

Iteration 1 of 1
200 239ms google [HEAD] http://google.com
200 1708ms github [HEAD] http://github.com
405 1031ms amazon [HEAD] http://amazon.com

Summary:

Parent                      Pass Count   FailCount
-------------------------------------------------------------
Collection Head test                 0           0

Total                                0           0

[czardoz]

What's your Newman version? Are you behind a corporate proxy or something?

[Sangdol]

I'm not behind any proxy. I tried with these combinations but nothing worked.

• Newman 1.2.28 + Node 5.0
• Newman 2.0.0-beta.6 + Node 5.0
• Newman 2.0.0-beta.6 + Node 5.3

Newman works well with GET or POST requests.

$ newman -u https://www.getpostman.com/collections/d5ec4973f044fe002171

Iteration 1 of 1
RequestError: [560b16fe-b43b-7053-036a-1ff5b8103ee7] 'google' terminated. Complete error:
Error: unexpected end of file
    at Zlib._handle.onerror (zlib.js:363:17)
RequestError: [9016e3df-2a4e-10e9-b22c-81f6d0f584ec] 'github' terminated. Complete error:
Error: unexpected end of file
    at Zlib._handle.onerror (zlib.js:363:17)
RequestError: [8b850a44-e1ca-7088-d9f1-d42afb3f8a56] 'amazon' terminated. Complete error:
Error: unexpected end of file
    at Zlib._handle.onerror (zlib.js:363:17)

Summary:

Parent                      Pass Count   FailCount
-------------------------------------------------------------
Collection Head test                 0           0

Total                                0           0

$ newman -u https://www.getpostman.com/collections/9efe5601c5849ab43288

Iteration 1 of 1
200 373ms google [GET] http://google.com
200 1316ms github [GET] http://github.com
200 2402ms amazon [GET] http://amazon.com

Summary:

Parent                      Pass Count   FailCount
-------------------------------------------------------------
Collection GET test                  0           0

Total                                0           0

Node 5+ could be the cause of this problem?

[czardoz]

Looks like yes. This seems to be an issue in https://www.npmjs.com/package/request (which newman uses internally).

I will do some further investigation before opening an issue on the downstream.

[czardoz]

Opened an issue with the downstream: request/request#2045

[Sangdol]

Thank you!