handle auth errors better

What kind of handling? I'm also getting a ton of 404 errors on the back-end even though I'm getting the desired behavior on the front-end. Should we just swallow 404's? or if 404 do not try and parse as JSON?

I've pulled this down and the error messages I'm getting when trying to hit the auth path are a lot friendlier:

23 Apr 17:55:36 - Client 8481339609716088 connected
Authenticating client with key "1fc52d3dc7c8129889b09c06831ae74f"
Backend authentication url not found.

Perhaps spit out a little more info about what the auth path it's trying to use when the error "Backend authentication url not found."?

I'm having this problem with it never being able to find a backend authentication and I'm trying to debug it.

This is great, I'm still not able to authenticate but now I have a nice clean debug message after every unsuccessful attempt:

25 Apr 00:21:52 - Client 9066404353361577 connected
Authenticating client with key "55ff6ef86271d8260c5aa8cb97fc092d"
Backend authentication url not found, tried using these options: 
{ port: '80',
  host: 'localhost',
  path: '/var/www/docroot/nodejs/auth/55ff6ef86271d8260c5aa8cb97fc092d',
  method: 'GET',
  agent: 
   { options: { host: 'localhost', port: '80' },
     host: 'localhost',
     port: '80',
     queue: [],
     sockets: [ [Object] ],
     maxSockets: 5 } }

I really like this, but perhaps we should only show it if backendSettings.debug is true.

I will roll a patch now to wrap your console.log(options) in the same way you do your other error reporting.

Here it is

What should I put in for my auth path?

Right now my config is:

"host":"localhost",
"authPath":"/var/www/docroot/nodejs/auth/"

Should authPath be a URL?

figured it out! Auth is working for me!

how did you get this working?"

bigsyke, i had to make sure my auth path was correct, for my sandbox i have [IP address]/drupal7

so my auth path was /drupal7/auth, also double check the format of nodejs.config.js

Sweet man, got it. Thank you!