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images won't properly display on tls server

When I go to an image all I get is a square box
This is running latest node as of today I've tried opening the binary file in utf8 and tried not specifying the encoding
var fs = require("fs");
var net = require("net");
var tls = require("tls");
var config = require("config");
var clients = [];
mount = ";";
function get(data) {
var r = /GET\s(.+)\sHTTP/gms;
var rt = r.exec(data)
if (rt != null) { return rt[1] }
}
function handle_data(data, socket) {
if (get(data) == "/") {
var read = fs.readFile("index.html", function(err, data) {
if (err){
console.log(err);
}
var data = data.toString();
var content = data.replace("{port}", config.JCasterPort).replace("{mount}", mount);
var length = content.length
var header = config.HTTP_RESP.replace("{length}", length).replace("{cts}", content).replace("{type}", "text/html");
socket.write(header)
});
}
if (get(data) == "/img/content-bg.png") {
var read = fs.readFile("img/content-bg.png", "utf8", function(err, data) {
if (err){
console.log(err);
}
var data = data.toString();
var content = data;
var length = content.length
var header = config.HTTP_RESP.replace("{length}", length).replace("{cts}", content).replace("{type}", "image/png");
socket.write(header)
});
}
if (get(data) == "/img/background.gif") {
var read = fs.readFile("img/background.gif", "utf8", function(err, data) {
if (err){
console.log(err);
}
var data = data.toString();
var content = data;
var length = content.length
var header = config.HTTP_RESP.replace("{length}", length).replace("{cts}", content).replace("{type}", "image/gif");
socket.write(header)
});
}
if (get(data) == "/img/background.jpg") {
var read = fs.readFile("img/background.jpg", function(err, data) {
if (err){
console.log(err);
}
var data = data.toString()
var content = data;
var length = content.length
var header = config.HTTP_RESP.replace("{length}", length).replace("{cts}", content).replace("{type}", "image/jpg");
socket.write(header)
});
}
}
if (config.JCasterSSL) {
var key = config.JCasterKey;
var cert = config.JCasterCert;
var options = {
key: fs.readFileSync(key),
cert: fs.readFileSync(cert)
};
var server = tls.createServer(options, function(socket) {
socket.on("data", function(data) {
var data = data.toString();
handle_data(data, socket)
});
});
server.listen(config.JCasterPort, function(){
console.log("Listening on port: " + config.JCasterPort)
});
} else {
}
//HTTP_RESP = HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: {type}\r\nContent-Length: {length}\r\n\r\n{cts}
My goal is to display the images I know I can use the built in http/https library but I need it to be able to broadcast audio data
the only thing I haven't tried was encoding to ASCII

Sails.js how can i get the name of image after upload

I want to get the name of image and insert it in MySQL after uploaded it.
Turn out I get the store images path instead. like E:\work\assets\pic_items\98046f37-ac7a-42cc-996.png on MySQL
i only want name of image after uploaded it.
How can i do that?
This is my controller
update: function (req, res){
var id = req.param('id');
var category_id = req.param('category_id');
var title = req.param('title');
var description = req.param('description');
var width = req.param('width');
var height = req.param('height');
var price = req.param('price');
var picture_path = req.param('picture_path');
console.log(id);
req.file('picture_path').upload({dirname: "../../assets/pic_items"},function (err, uploadedFiles){
if (err) {
return res.send(err);
}
console.log(uploadedFiles);
if (uploadedFiles.length === 0){
console.log(uploadedFiles);
return res.serverError('no file was uploaded');
}
picture_path = uploadedFiles[0].filename;
picture_path = uploadedFiles[0].fd.replace(/^.[\\\/]/, '');
Item.update({id:id},{category_id:parseInt(category_id),title:title, description:description, width:width, height:height, price:parseInt(price), picture_path:picture_path}).exec(function(err){
if(err){
console.log(err);
return res.send('life is suck');
}
res.redirect('/item');
});
});
},

picture_path = uploadedFiles[0].filename;
picture_path = uploadedFiles[0].fd.replace(/^.[\\\/]/, '');
I believe it is in uploadedFiles[0].filename. Why are you overriding it with uploadedFiles[0].fd.replace(/^.[\\\/]/, '') ?

aws lambda function how to use responses to perform calculation

Trying to create a lambda function that lists tagged ec2 and tagged rds and performs an action thereafter. This is the first time i have used javascript and would appreciate some help.
Please see my example below
var aws = require('aws-sdk');
var ec2 = new aws.EC2();
var rds = new aws.RDS();
aws.config.region = 'us-east-1';
exports.handler = function(event,context) {
if (event) {
console.log(event.id);
}
//setup params for rds call
var rdsparams = {
DBInstanceIdentifier: 'master',
};
//setup params for ec2 call
var ec2params = {
Filters: [
{
Name: 'tag:role',
Values: [
'app'
],
}
]
};
//Get ec2 instances with app tag, may need to add a condition on running so pulled it into hash
ec2.describeInstances(ec2params, function(err, appdata) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
return;
}
else {
var apparray={};
for(var i = 0; i < appdata.Reservations.length; i++) {
var ins = appdata.Reservations[i].Instances[0];
var id = ins.InstanceId;
var state = ins.State.Name;
apparray[id]=state;
}
console.log(apparray);
context.succeed(apparray);
}
});
rds.describeDBInstances(rdsparams, function(err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log(err, err.stack);
return;
}
else {
var rdsarray={};
var rdsarray=(data);
console.log(rdsarray);
var ins=rdsarray[0];
var name = ins.ReadReplicaDBInstanceIdentifiers[0];
rdsarray[replicant]=name;
}
context.succeed(rdsarray);
});
//context.done();
};
I want to return my filtered (apparray) and (rdsarray) back from my functions and perform a calculation on this within the main body of the script. Any ideas on how to do this.
something like
var replicas = rdsarray.length for example
Thanks in advance

var aws = require('aws-sdk');
var ec2 = new aws.EC2();
var rds = new aws.RDS();
aws.config.region = 'us-east-1';
exports.handler = function(event, context) {
if (event) {
console.log(event.id);
}
//setup params for rds call
var rdsparams = {
DBInstanceIdentifier: 'master',
};
//setup params for ec2 call
var ec2params = {
Filters: [{
Name: 'tag:role',
Values: [
'app'
],
}]
};
//Get ec2 instances with app tag, may need to add a condition on running so pulled it into hash
ec2.describeInstances(ec2params, function(err, appdata) {
if (err)
return context.done(err, null);
var apparray = {};
for (var i = 0; i < appdata.Reservations.length; i++) {
var ins = appdata.Reservations[i].Instances[0];
var id = ins.InstanceId;
var state = ins.State.Name;
apparray[id] = state;
}
console.log(apparray);
var resultData = {};
resultData.apparray = apparray;
rds.describeDBInstances(rdsparams, function(err, data) {
if (err)
return context.done(err, null);
var rdsarray = {};
var rdsarray = (data);
console.log(rdsarray);
var ins = rdsarray[0];
var name = ins.ReadReplicaDBInstanceIdentifiers[0];
rdsarray[replicant] = name;
resultData.rdsarray = rdsarray;
context.done(null, resultData);
});
});
};
and back in the code from you are calling the lambda function
var lambda = new sdk.Lambda();
var params = {
FunctionName: 'arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:1541546477777:function:MyFunction',
Payload: JSON.stringify(/*your params here*/)
};
lambda.invoke(params, function(err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log('error ===', err);
return ;
}
var lambdaData = JSON.parse(data.Payload);
// do your stuff here
});
Is this what you needed? It may be broken but I hope you get the idea of it

Express render broken after save to firebase

I am writing an express app to generate a google map from geo coordinates out of photos. I am attempting to use firebase to save data about the images. The code is fully working except when I save the photo data to firebase it breaks the map rendering on the next page showing connection errors to all my local files in the console like so
So the page is rendering but the map doesn't load and nor do the images. The data I am saving to firebase is actually saving though, and If I remove the function that saves the data to firebase everything works as expected. I think it may have something to do with the way the response is being pushed but I am at a loss. In any other page where I am saving data to firebase it works fine.
Here is the code for the route that is generating the photo data and saving it to firebase:
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var util = require('util');
var fs = require('fs');
var im = require('imagemagick');
var stormpath = require('express-stormpath');
var _ = require('lodash')
var Firebase = require('firebase');
router.post("/:campaignId", stormpath.loginRequired, function(req, res, next) {
function gatherImages(files, callback) {
//accept single image upload
if (!_.isArray(files)) {
files = [files];
}
var uploads = [];
var count = 0;
files.forEach(function(file) {
fs.exists(file.path, function(exists) {
if (exists) {
var name = req.body[file.originalname];
console.log(name);
var path = file.path;
var upFile = file.name;
uploads.push({
file: upFile,
imgPath: path,
caption: name || 'no comment'
});
count++;
}
if (files.length === count) {
callback(uploads);
}
});
});
}
function getGeoLoc(path, callback) {
im.readMetadata('./' + path, function(error, metadata) {
var geoCoords = false;
if (error) throw error;
if (metadata.exif.gpsLatitude && metadata.exif.gpsLatitudeRef) {
var lat = getDegrees(metadata.exif.gpsLatitude.split(','));
var latRef = metadata.exif.gpsLatitudeRef;
if (latRef === 'S') {
lat = lat * -1;
}
var lng = getDegrees(metadata.exif.gpsLongitude.split(','));
var lngRef = metadata.exif.gpsLongitudeRef;
if (lngRef === 'W') {
lng = lng * -1;
}
var coordinate = {
lat: lat,
lng: lng
};
geoCoords = coordinate.lat + ' ' + coordinate.lng;
console.log(geoCoords);
}
callback(geoCoords);
});
}
function getDegrees(lat) {
var degrees = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < lat.length; i++) {
var cleanNum = lat[i].replace(' ', '');
var parts = cleanNum.split('/');
var coord = parseInt(parts[0]) / parseInt(parts[1]);
if (i == 1) {
coord = coord / 60;
} else if (i == 2) {
coord = coord / 3600;
}
degrees += coord;
}
return degrees.toFixed(6);
}
function processImages(uploads, callback) {
var finalImages = [];
var count = 0;
uploads.forEach(function(upload) {
var path = upload.imgPath;
getGeoLoc(path, function(geoCoords) {
upload.coords = geoCoords;
finalImages.push(upload);
count++;
if (uploads.length === count) {
callback(finalImages);
}
});
});
}
function saveImageInfo(finalImages, callback) {
var campaignId = req.param('campaignId');
var user = res.locals.user;
var count = 0;
var campaignPhotosRef = new Firebase('https://vivid-fire-567.firebaseio.com/BSB/userStore/' + user.username + '/campaigns/' + campaignId + '/photos');
finalImages.forEach(function(image) {
campaignPhotosRef.push(image, function(err) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
count++;
if (finalImages.length === count) {
callback(finalImages);
} else {
return;
}
}
});
});
}
if (req.files) {
if (req.files.size === 0) {
return next(new Error("Why didn't you select a file?"));
}
gatherImages(req.files.imageFiles, function(uploads) {
processImages(uploads, function(finalImages) {
saveImageInfo(finalImages, function(finalImages) {
var campaignId = req.param('campaignId');
console.log(res.req.next);
res.render("uploadMapPage", {
title: "File(s) Uploaded Successfully!",
files: finalImages,
campaignId: campaignId,
scripts: ['https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyCU42Wpv6BtNO51t7xGJYnatuPqgwnwk7c', '/javascripts/getPoints.js']
});
});
});
});
}
});
module.exports = router;
This is the only file I have written trying to push multiple objects to firebase. This is my first time using Firebase and Stormpath so any help would be greatly appreciated. Also one other thing that may be helpful is the error from the terminal being output when the issue happens:
POST /uploaded/-JapMLDYzPnbtjvt001X 200 690.689 ms - 2719
/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/firebase/lib/firebase-node.js:24
?a:null}function Db(a){try{a()}catch(b){setTimeout(function(){throw b;},Math.f
^
TypeError: Property 'next' of object #<IncomingMessage> is not a function
at fn (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:899:25)
at EventEmitter.app.render (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:532:5)
at ServerResponse.res.render (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:904:7)
at /Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/routes/campaigns.js:20:25
at Array.forEach (native)
at /Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/routes/campaigns.js:16:18
at /Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/firebase/lib/firebase-node.js:25:533
at Db (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/firebase/lib/firebase-node.js:24:165)
at Ye (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/firebase/lib/firebase-node.js:124:216)
at Ze (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/firebase/lib/firebase-node.js:123:818)
UPDATE: It seems that the connection errors are inconsistent. Sometimes the images display just fine, sometimes only some of the images get a connection error, and other times everything including the google map script gets a connection error. This is really throwing me off no idea what the issue is. Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated!
UPDATE 2: I changed the function saving the image data to firebase to use the firebase push function callback (to indicate completion) and added a length check on the forEach loop running to save each image's data. See updated code above. I am now getting the following error for each image that is uploaded in the terminal, but the connection errors are gone:
Error: Can't set headers after they are sent.
at ServerResponse.OutgoingMessage.setHeader (http.js:689:11)
at ServerResponse.header (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:666:10)
at ServerResponse.send (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:146:12)
at fn (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:900:10)
at View.exports.renderFile [as engine] (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/jade/lib/jade.js:325:12)
at View.render (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/express/lib/view.js:93:8)
at EventEmitter.app.render (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:530:10)
at ServerResponse.res.render (/Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:904:7)
at /Users/jpribesh/Desktop/Code/BanditSignBoss/routes/campaigns.js:20:25
at Array.forEach (native)

OK I finally figured out the issue here. I did a few things to remedy my problem. First I converted the route to use next properly to separate out each part of the route out, it processes the images, then saves, then renders. Here is the updated code from that file:
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var util = require('util');
var fs = require('fs');
var im = require('imagemagick');
var stormpath = require('express-stormpath');
var _ = require('lodash')
var Firebase = require('firebase');
function processData(req, res, next) {
function gatherImages(files, callback) {
//accept single image upload
if (!_.isArray(files)) {
files = [files];
}
var uploads = [];
var count = 0;
files.forEach(function(file) {
fs.exists(file.path, function(exists) {
if (exists) {
var name = req.body[file.originalname];
console.log(name);
var path = file.path;
var upFile = file.name;
uploads.push({
file: upFile,
imgPath: path,
caption: name || 'no comment'
});
count++;
}
if (files.length === count) {
callback(uploads);
}
});
});
}
function getGeoLoc(path, callback) {
im.readMetadata('./' + path, function(error, metadata) {
var geoCoords = false;
if (error) throw error;
if (metadata.exif.gpsLatitude && metadata.exif.gpsLatitudeRef) {
var lat = getDegrees(metadata.exif.gpsLatitude.split(','));
var latRef = metadata.exif.gpsLatitudeRef;
if (latRef === 'S') {
lat = lat * -1;
}
var lng = getDegrees(metadata.exif.gpsLongitude.split(','));
var lngRef = metadata.exif.gpsLongitudeRef;
if (lngRef === 'W') {
lng = lng * -1;
}
var coordinate = {
lat: lat,
lng: lng
};
geoCoords = coordinate.lat + ' ' + coordinate.lng;
console.log(geoCoords);
}
callback(geoCoords);
});
}
function getDegrees(lat) {
var degrees = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < lat.length; i++) {
var cleanNum = lat[i].replace(' ', '');
var parts = cleanNum.split('/');
var coord = parseInt(parts[0]) / parseInt(parts[1]);
if (i == 1) {
coord = coord / 60;
} else if (i == 2) {
coord = coord / 3600;
}
degrees += coord;
}
return degrees.toFixed(6);
}
function processImages(uploads, callback) {
var finalImages = [];
var count = 0;
uploads.forEach(function(upload) {
var path = upload.imgPath;
getGeoLoc(path, function(geoCoords) {
upload.coords = geoCoords;
finalImages.push(upload);
count++;
if (uploads.length === count) {
callback(finalImages);
}
});
});
}
if (req.files) {
if (req.files.size === 0) {
return next(new Error("Why didn't you select a file?"));
}
gatherImages(req.files.imageFiles, function(uploads) {
processImages(uploads, function(finalImages) {
req.finalImages = finalImages;
req.campaignId = req.param('campaignId');
next();
});
});
}
}
function saveImageInfo(req, res, next) {
var user = res.locals.user;
var count = 0;
var campaignPhotosRef = new Firebase('https://vivid-fire-567.firebaseio.com/BSB/userStore/' + user.username + '/campaigns/' + req.campaignId + '/photos');
var finalImages = req.finalImages;
finalImages.forEach(function(image) {
campaignPhotosRef.push(image, function(err) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
console.log('Data saved successfully: ' + image);
count++;
if (req.finalImages.length === count) {
next();
}
}
});
});
}
router.post("/:campaignId", stormpath.loginRequired, processData, saveImageInfo, function(req, res) {
res.render("uploadMapPage", {
title: "File(s) Uploaded Successfully!",
files: req.finalImages,
campaignId: req.campaignId,
scripts: ['https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyCU42Wpv6BtNO51t7xGJYnatuPqgwnwk7c', '/javascripts/getPoints.js']
});
});
module.exports = router;
Then I realized in the tracestack I included in my question part of it was tracing back to another file I was using firebase in. I was using a call to .on() instead of using .once() when pulling my data. After reorganizing my route and changing all my calls to .on to .once for firebase data everything is now working properly. I think the real issue here was the use of .on() on my firebase calls instead of .once() as the .on() watches for events continually rather than .once which obviously only watches for it once.

How can I get node.js to return data once all operations are complete

I am just learning server-side JavaScript so please bear with any glaring mistakes I've made.
I am trying to write a file parser that operates on HTML files in a directory and returns a JSON string once all files have been parsed. I started it with a single file and it works fine. it loads the resource from Apache running on the same machine, injects jquery, does the parsing and returns my JSON.
var request = require('request'),
jsdom = require('jsdom'),
sys = require('sys'),
http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
request({uri:'http://localhost/tfrohe/Car3E.html'}, function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
var window = jsdom.jsdom(body).createWindow();
jsdom.jQueryify(window, 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js', function (window, jquery) {
// jQuery is now loaded on the jsdom window created from 'body'
var emps = {};
jquery("tr td img").parent().parent().each(function(){
var step = 0;
jquery(this).children().each(function(index){
if (jquery(this).children('img').attr('src') !== undefined) {
step++;
var name = jquery(this).parent().next().next().children('td:nth-child('+step+')').children().children().text();
var name_parts = name.split(",");
var last = name_parts[0];
var name_parts = name_parts[1].split(/\u00a0/g);
var first = name_parts[2];
emps[last + ",_" + first] = jquery(this).children('img').attr('src');
}
});
});
emps = JSON.stringify(emps);
//console.log(emps);
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end(emps);
});
} else {
res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
res.end("empty");
//console.log(response.statusCode);
}
});
}).listen(8124);
Now I am trying to extend this to using the regular file system (fs) and get all HTML files in the directory and parse them the same way and return a single combined JSON object once all files have been parsed. Here is what I have so far but it does not work.
var sys = require("sys"),
fs = require("fs"),
jsdom = require("jsdom"),
emps = {};
//path = '/home/inet/www/media/employees/';
readDirectory = function(path) {
fs.readdir(path, function(err, files) {
var htmlfiles = [];
files.forEach(function(name) {
if(name.substr(-4) === "html") {
htmlfiles.push(name);
}
});
var count = htmlfiles.length;
htmlfiles.forEach(function(filename) {
fs.readFile(path + filename, "binary", function(err, data) {
if(err) throw err;
window = jsdom.jsdom(data).createWindow();
jsdom.jQueryify(window, 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js', function (window, jquery) {
jquery("tr td img").parent().parent().each(function(){
var step = 0;
jquery(this).children().each(function(index){
if (jquery(this).children('img').attr('src') !== undefined) {
step++;
var empname = jquery(this).parent().next().next().children('td:nth-child('+step+')').children().children().text();
var name_parts = empname.split(",");
var last = name_parts[0];
var name_parts = name_parts[1].split(/\u00a0/g);
var first = name_parts[2]
emps[last + ",_" + first] = jquery(this).children('img').attr('src');
}
});
});
});
});
});
});
}
readDirectory('/home/inet/www/media/employees/', function() {
console.log(emps);
});
In this particular case, there are 2 html files in the directory. If i console.log(emps) during the htmlfiles.forEach() it shows me the results from the first file then the results for both files together the way I expect. how do I get emps to be returned to readDirectory so i can output it as desired?
Completed Script
After the answers below, here is the completed script with a httpServer to serve up the detail.
var sys = require('sys'),
fs = require("fs"),
http = require('http'),
jsdom = require('jsdom'),
emps = {};
var timed = setInterval(function() {
emps = {};
readDirectory('/home/inet/www/media/employees/', function(emps) {
});
}, 3600000);
readDirectory = function(path, callback) {
fs.readdir(path, function(err, files) {
var htmlfiles = [];
files.forEach(function(name) {
if(name.substr(-4) === "html") {
htmlfiles.push(name);
}
});
var count = htmlfiles.length;
htmlfiles.forEach(function(filename) {
fs.readFile(path + filename, "binary", function(err, data) {
if(err) throw err;
window = jsdom.jsdom(data).createWindow();
jsdom.jQueryify(window, 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js', function (window, jquery) {
var imagecount = jquery("tr td img").length;
jquery("tr td img").parent().parent().each(function(){
var step = 0;
jquery(this).children().each(function(index){
if (jquery(this).children('img').attr('src') !== undefined) {
step += 1;
var empname = jquery(this).parent().next().next().children('td:nth-child('+step+')').children().children().text();
var name_parts = empname.split(",");
var last = name_parts[0];
var name_parts = name_parts[1].split(/\u00a0/g);
var first = name_parts[2]
emps[last + ",_" + first] = jquery(this).children('img').attr('src');
}
});
});
count -= 1;
if (count <= 0) {
callback(JSON.stringify(emps));
}
});
});
});
});
}
var init = readDirectory('/home/inet/www/media/employees/', function(emps) {
});
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end(JSON.stringify(emps));
}).listen(8124);

That sure is a lot of code a couple of mistakes.
You're never calling the callback function you supply to readDirectory
You need to keep track of the files you have parsed, when you parsed all of them, call the callback and supply the emps
This should work:
var sys = require("sys"),
fs = require("fs"),
jsdom = require("jsdom"),
//path = '/home/inet/www/media/employees/';
// This is a nicer way
function readDirectory(path, callback) {
fs.readdir(path, function(err, files) {
// make this local
var emps = {};
var htmlfiles = [];
files.forEach(function(name) {
if(name.substr(-4) === "html") {
htmlfiles.push(name);
}
});
// Keep track of the number of files we have parsed
var count = htmlfiles.length;
var done = 0;
htmlfiles.forEach(function(filename) {
fs.readFile(path + filename, "binary", function(err, data) {
if(err) throw err;
window = jsdom.jsdom(data).createWindow();
jsdom.jQueryify(window, 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js', function (window, jquery) {
jquery("tr td img").parent().parent().each(function(){
var step = 0;
jquery(this).children().each(function(index){
if (jquery(this).children('img').attr('src') !== undefined) {
step++;
var empname = jquery(this).parent().next().next().children('td:nth-child('+step+')').children().children().text();
var name_parts = empname.split(",");
var last = name_parts[0];
var name_parts = name_parts[1].split(/\u00a0/g);
var first = name_parts[2]
emps[last + ",_" + first] = jquery(this).children('img').attr('src');
}
});
});
// As soon as all have finished call the callback and supply emps
done++;
if (done === count) {
callback(emps);
}
});
});
});
});
}
readDirectory('/home/inet/www/media/employees/', function(emps) {
console.log(emps);
});

You seem to be doing this a tad wrong
readDirectory('/home/inet/www/media/employees/', function() {
console.log(emps);
});
But you've defined your function as:
readDirectory = function(path) {
Where is the callback argument? Try this:
readDirectory = function(path, callback) {
then under emps[last + ",_" + first] = jquery(this).children('img').attr('src'); put
callback.call(null, emps);
Your callback function will be called however many times your loop goes on for. If you want it to return all of them at once, you'll need to get a count of how many times the loop is going to run for, count up until that number then call your callback when the emps array is full of the data you need.