http.AgentOptions

interface AgentOptions

• agentKeepAliveTimeoutBuffer?: number

  Milliseconds to subtract from the server-provided keep-alive: timeout=... hint when determining socket expiration time. This buffer helps ensure the agent closes the socket slightly before the server does, reducing the chance of sending a request on a socket that’s about to be closed by the server.

• autoSelectFamily?: boolean
• autoSelectFamilyAttemptTimeout?: number
• blockList?: BlockList
• defaultPort?: number

  Default port to use when the port is not specified in requests.

• family?: number
• hints?: number
• host?: string
• keepAlive?: boolean

  Keep sockets around in a pool to be used by other requests in the future. Default = false

• keepAliveInitialDelay?: number
• keepAliveMsecs?: number

  When using HTTP KeepAlive, how often to send TCP KeepAlive packets over sockets being kept alive. Default = 1000. Only relevant if keepAlive is set to true.

• localAddress?: string
• localPort?: number
• lookup?: LookupFunction
• maxFreeSockets?: number

  Maximum number of sockets to leave open in a free state. Only relevant if keepAlive is set to true. Default = 256.

• maxSockets?: number

  Maximum number of sockets to allow per host. Default for Node 0.10 is 5, default for Node 0.12 is Infinity

• maxTotalSockets?: number

  Maximum number of sockets allowed for all hosts in total. Each request will use a new socket until the maximum is reached. Default: Infinity.

• noDelay?: boolean
• port?: number
• protocol?: string

  The protocol to use for the agent.

• proxyEnv?: ProxyEnv

  Environment variables for proxy configuration. See Built-in Proxy Support for details.

• scheduling?: 'fifo' | 'lifo'

  Scheduling strategy to apply when picking the next free socket to use.

• timeout?: number

  Socket timeout in milliseconds. This will set the timeout after the socket is connected.