NodeJS – What does “socket hang up” actually mean?

I’m building a web scraper with Node and Cheerio, and for a certain website I’m getting the following error (it only happens on this one website, no others that I try to scrape.

It happens at a different location every time, so sometimes it’s url x that throws the error, other times url x is fine and it’s a different url entirely:

    Error!: Error: socket hang up using [insert random URL, it's different every time]

Error: socket hang up
    at createHangUpError (http.js:1445:15)
    at Socket.socketOnEnd [as onend] (http.js:1541:23)
    at Socket.g (events.js:175:14)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)
    at _stream_readable.js:910:16
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13)

This is very tricky to debug, I don’t really know where to start. To begin, what IS a socket hang up error? Is it a 404 error or similar? Or does it just mean that the server refused a connection?

I can’t find an explanation of this anywhere!

EDIT: Here’s a sample of code that is (sometimes) returning errors:

function scrapeNexts(url, oncomplete) {
    request(url, function(err, resp, body) {

        if (err) {
            console.log("Uh-oh, ScrapeNexts Error!: " + err + " using " + url);
            errors.nexts.push(url);
        }
        $ = cheerio.load(body);
        // do stuff with the '$' cheerio content here
    });
}

There is no direct call to close the connection, but I’m using Node Request which (as far as I can tell) uses http.get so this is not required, correct me if I’m wrong!

EDIT 2: Here’s an actual, in-use bit of code that is causing errors. prodURL and other variables are mostly jquery selectors that are defined earlier. This uses the async library for Node.

function scrapeNexts(url, oncomplete) {
    request(url, function (err, resp, body) {

        if (err) {
            console.log("Uh-oh, ScrapeNexts Error!: " + err + " using " + url);
            errors.nexts.push(url);
        }
        async.series([
                function (callback) {
                    $ = cheerio.load(body);
                    callback();
                },
                function (callback) {
                    $(prodURL).each(function () {
                        var theHref = $(this).attr('href');
                        urls.push(baseURL + theHref);
                    });
                    var next = $(next_select).first().attr('href');
                    oncomplete(next);
                }
            ]);
    });
}