Produces a socket/stream to be used for HTTP requests.
By default, this function is the same as net.createConnection()
. However, custom agents may override this method in case greater flexibility is desired.
A socket/stream can be supplied in one of two ways: by returning the socket/stream from this function, or by passing the socket/stream to callback
.
This method is guaranteed to return an instance of the net.Socket
class, a subclass of stream.Duplex
, unless the user specifies a socket type other than net.Socket
.
callback
has a signature of (err, stream)
.