Issue with HTTP request using node through TOR

I am relatively new to both node and TOR. I'm trying to send a request using a node application through TOR. Ive set up a basic app using socks5-HTTP-client. Also, TOR is installed (sudo port install tor) and I ran the server using tor..

Executing the app, node gives me the following error

Error: SOCKS connection failed. General SOCKS server failure.
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/Users/MyName/node_modules/socks5-client/lib/Socket.js:199:12)
    at Socket.g (events.js:260:16)
    at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:146:16)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:110:10)
    at TCP.onread (net.js:523:20)

The TOR server reports the following to me:

[warn] Rejecting SOCKS request for anonymous connection to private address [scrubbed].

The topic I found here does not seem to apply to this case. Also, this earlier article does not answer my question. Neither can I find any difference between the example given by the developer of the socks5 module and my case.

I am unsure whether this is an issue with my configuration in node or my TOR configuration.

Below is the JS code

var shttp = require('socks5-http-client');
var config = 
        { url: 'http://whatismyipaddress.com/', // I'd like to see a different IP on every request, that should be the end result, correct?
      socksHost: '127.0.0.1',
        socksPort: 9050
    }
shttp.get(config, function(res) {
    res.setEncoding('utf8');
    res.on('readable', function() {
        console.log(res.read());
    });
});

Also, in my torrc.sample configuration file, I made sure the following is set up:

SOCKSPort 127.0.0.1:9050

Also, my SOCKSPolicy is set up as follows:

SOCKSPolicy accept 192.168.0.0/16
SOCKSPolicy accept6 FC00::/7
SOCKSPolicy reject *

At the time of trying, my internal IP address was 192.168.0.11, seems fine to me.

Any help would be appreciated!

Solution

You are getting that error because the URL isn't getting passed to the request properly so it is trying to issue a SOCKS request to localhost instead of the site you want to visit.

URLs are parsed using url.parse.

Try changing your code to:

var shttp = require('socks5-http-client');
var url = require('url');
var config = url.parse('http://whatismyipaddress.com/');
config.socksHost = '127.0.0.1';
config.socksPort = 9050;

shttp.get(config, function(res) {
    res.setEncoding('utf8');
    res.on('readable', function() {
        console.log(res.read());
    });
});

Also, it appears whatismyipaddress.com might be blocking Tor as I don't get a response back from them. Try ipchicken.com or some other site. You may need to set a User-Agent header to get the former site to reply, but this code change does work.