Unable to bind socket errors if ESP32 not powercycled between uploads, strange error messages

>    require("http").get("http://drazzy.com/time.shtml", function(res) {
console.log({GMT:res.headers.Date});
        var contents = "";
        res.on('data', function(data) { contents += data; });
        res.on('close', function() {
console.log(contents);
setTime(contents); });
 }).on('error', function(e) {
:        console.log("ERROR", e);
:    });
=undefined
{
  "GMT": "Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:22:54 GMT"
 }
Wed Jun 13 11:22:54 2018