How can I catch and handle a RequestError?

[anjasumma]

I am using got 12.

Currently the server I request data from returns me incorrect headers. This causes my nodejs app to crash. I would like to catch the error so instead of crashing my app will inform the user that there's a problem. But whatever I try, I cannot catch the error, it doesn't seem to reach my own code before crashing.

This is the stacktrace I see:
RequestError: Parse Error: Content-Length can't be present with Transfer-Encoding at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (file:///<path>/src/node_modules/got/dist/source/core/index.js:790:107) at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:628:26) at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:525:35) at TLSSocket.socketOnData (node:_http_client:543:9) at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:513:28) at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:324:12) at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:297:9) at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:234:10) at TLSSocket.socketOnData (node:_http_client:534:22) at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:513:28) at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:324:12) at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:297:9) at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:234:10) at TLSWrap.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:190:23)

I put try/catch everywhere I can including directly around the got request:
try { const scorpio_answer = got(query, OPTIONS).json(); return scorpio_answer; } catch (error) { console.log("error in query_scorpio"); return {}; }

Any ideas/help?

[sindresorhus]

You are missing an await before the got() call.

[anjasumma]

Thank you, that works!