test for node.js issue 670 https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/670

client.js

var urlToResolve = 'https://localhost/';

var https = require('https'),
    url = require('url');
    
var parsedUrl = url.parse(urlToResolve);
var path = parsedUrl.pathname;
var options = {
  host: parsedUrl.hostname,
  path: path,
  port: 8443
};

var request = https.get(options, function(response) {
  response.socket.on('error', function(e) {
    console.log('Error on response socket.');
  });
  var body = '';
  response.on('data', function(chunk) {
    body += chunk;
    console.log('Response data.');
  });
  response.on('end', function() {
    console.log('Response end.');
    
	console.log(body);
  });
}).on('error', function(e) {
  console.log('Error on get.');
});

server.crt

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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-----END CERTIFICATE-----

server.key

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----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-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

server.py

#!/usr/bin/python
"""Secure WSGI server example based on gevent.pywsgi"""

from gevent import pywsgi


def hello_world(env, start_response):
    if env['PATH_INFO'] == '/':
        start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html')])
        return ["<b>hello world</b>"]
    else:
        start_response('404 Not Found', [('Content-Type', 'text/html')])
        return ['<h1>Not Found</h1>']

print 'Serving on https://127.0.0.1:8443'
server = pywsgi.WSGIServer(('0.0.0.0', 8443), hello_world, keyfile='server.key', certfile='server.crt')
# to start the server asynchronously, call server.start()
# we use blocking serve_forever() here because we have no other jobs
server.serve_forever()

Requires Python Gevent:

aptitude install python-setuptools python-dev libevent-dev
easy_install gevent

Start server:

python server.py

Run client:

node client.js

Throws error (in 1 out of 10 cases):

TypeError: Cannot call method 'emit' of undefined
    at CleartextStream. (http.js:1201:9)
    at CleartextStream.emit (events.js:81:20)
    at Socket.onerror (tls.js:874:17)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:64:17)
    at Array. (net.js:824:27)
    at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:126:26)