nodejs net request not firing events

I have this simple piece of code that I adapted from the official documentation:

const request = net.request(apiUri + '/' + action);    

request.on('response', (response) => {
  var body = '';
  response.on('data', (chunk) => {
    body += chunk;
    console.log('response data');
  });

  response.on('end', () => {
    console.log('response end');        
    //body = JSON.parse(body);
  });

});

request.on('error', (e) => {
  console.log('Error: ' + e.message);
});

request.on('end', () => {
  console.log('request end');
});

request.end();

But I only see "response data" and nothing else. Request is not ending, not giving an error.. wtf?

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