cannot receive response from IBM watson: Body of error is HTTP ClientRequest about node-sdk-core HOT 8 CLOSED

it really was, thank you so much! I'll close the issue!

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You need to allow for 2 requests.

1. First goes to https://iam.cloud.ibm.com/identity/token and retrieves an access_token (this is where you app is failing)
2. Second goes to https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/conversation/api

Both are https. In your error, I see https://https://... which should not be there.
Can you paste the code you are using to construct the service instance?

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sure! Here it is :

const { WatsonMiddleware }  = require('botkit-middleware-watson');

 const watsonMiddleware = new WatsonMiddleware({

        iam_apikey: process.env.WATSON_APIKEY,
        url: process.env.WATSON_URL,
        workspace_id: process.env.WATSON_WORKSPACE_ID,
        version: '2018-07-10',
        minimum_confidence: 0.5, // (Optional) Default is 0.75
    });

watsonMiddleware.before = async (message, payload) => {

        if (typeof(payload.context) === 'undefined') {
            var context = {
                context: {
                    user_id: userId.user_id,
                    name:userId.name,
                    prev_interview: '',
                    prev_interview_detail: '',
                    age: '',
                    place: '',
                    civil_state: '',
                    prev_studies: '',
                    time_availability: '',
                }
            };

            Object.assign(payload, context);
        }

        return payload;
    };

contents of the .env file

WATSON_APIKEY=apikey goes gere
WATSON_URL=https://gateway-lon.watsonplatform.net/assistant/api
WATSON_WORKSPACE_ID=workspace id goes here

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Update: I changed it so now the https part is not repeated, but still get the same error. I am guessing it's because it can't be reached from the server, but I'm not sure. I can ping from my computer just fine.

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based on your images, the error is in the token request to IAM, not in the call to Watson. Try following the tutorial here https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/iam?topic=iam-iamtoken_from_apikey and see if you can do a curl command and get a token back

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Hello there! I followed the tutorial and got the exact same results as the expected answers:

{"access_token":"long string",
"refresh_token":"long string",
"token_type":"Bearer",
expires_in":3600,
"expiration":1574269358,
"scope":"ibm...

but it is still not working. Never once with botkit I had to send a curl btw. It just works once I execute the command npm start on my local machine
.

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I tried changing the proxy settings of watsonmiddleware, but I get this as currenturl

_currentUrl: 'https://host:port/https://iam.cloud.ibm.com/identity/token'

is this okay? how should I change it?

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@juanpablo64 Have you tried this method described in the docs? It seems like your issue is with the proxy, this may be what you need to fix it

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