Well, obviously you are trying to send something which is not a string or buffer. :) It works with console, because console accepts anything. Simple example:
var obj = { test : "test" };
console.log( obj ); // works
res.write( obj ); // fails
One way to convert anything to string is to do that:
res.write( "" + obj );
whenever you are trying to send something. The other way is to call .toString() method:
res.write( obj.toString( ) );
Note that it still might not be what you are looking for. You should always pass strings/buffers to .write without such tricks.
As a side note: I assume that request is a asynchronous operation. If that's the case, then res.end(); will be called before any writing, i.e. any writing will fail anyway ( because the connection will be closed at that point ). Move that line into the handler:
request({
uri: 'http://www.google.com',
method: 'GET',
maxRedirects:3
}, function(error, response, body) {
if (!error) {
res.write(response.statusCode);
} else {
//response.end(error);
res.write(error);
}
res.end( );
});