{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/web3.js/issues/383","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/web3.js","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/web3.js/issues/383/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/web3.js/issues/383/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/web3.js/issues/383/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/issues/383","id":132698413,"number":383,"title":"eth methods \"not implemented\" error","user":{"login":"pawanjay176","id":9890508,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9890508?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/pawanjay176","html_url":"https://github.com/pawanjay176","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pawanjay176/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pawanjay176/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pawanjay176/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pawanjay176/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pawanjay176/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pawanjay176/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pawanjay176/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pawanjay176/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pawanjay176/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-02-10T13:20:58Z","updated_at":"2016-02-10T13:20:58Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'm running a geth rpc instance on port 8545 on my localhost. \r\nWhen I try to access any eth method from a node server.js file, I get method not implemented error. \r\n\r\nFor e.g, in my node server.js file\r\n```\r\nvar Web3 = require(\"web3\");\r\nvar web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider('http://0.0.0.0:8545'));\r\nvar balance = web3.eth.getBalance(\"0x428e4b53f6038d3ee7d918eb670b038b76b5c67c\");\r\n```\r\nI get the following error:\r\n eth_getBalance method not implemented"}}