ECONNREFUSED when trying to get JSON from my server (MMM-json-feed)

[ninjabreadman]

@toh1000 Can you reach the JSON service with curl on your MM machine? And @e3v3a is right – ideally put the response through a validator, especially for things like trailing commas.

[ninjabreadman]

@E3V3A Also, @toh1000’s HTTP request included the header Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, so the test site responded with Content-Encoding: gzip. That’s totally appropriate, and usually this is handled transparently by the client, which will then provide the uncompressed response. However, the actual service (“My service”) responded with no compression.

[E3V3A]

From here:

ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused): No connection could be made because the target machine 
actively refused it. This usually results from trying to connect to a service that is inactive on the 
foreign host.

[cowboysdude]

Here’s an example in my node helper I use to get json

request({
            url: "xxxxxxxxxxxx.json",
            method: 'GET',
            headers: {
                'User-Agent': 'MagicMirror/1.0 (' + this.config.email + ')'
            }

[toh1000]

@ninjabreadman Yes, curl call returns correct json:

{"Date": "22.02.2018", "Temperature": -0.187, "Time": "22:45:37"}

[toh1000]

@E3V3A Any idea what I could do to accept the connection?

[toh1000]

@cowboysdude I added the header (without the this.config.email) but got the same result.

[toh1000]

Solved:
The problem was that the module translated the server name into an up address and CherryPy was not configured to response to that.
Reconfiguring did the trick:
this article explains how this is done
Thanks for your efforts.