res.connection.end();

On Monday, June 17, 2013 10:53:43 PM UTC+4, Ken wrote:
>
> I have a simple test client that performs load tests against a REST 
> service with http.request, essentially executing the following inside of a 
> big loop
>
>   var body = 'whatever=something';
>
>   var options = {
>     hostname: 'my.api.server',
>     port: 1234,
>     path: '/api/that/i/want/to/test',
>     method: 'POST',
>     headers: {
>       'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
>       'Content-Length': body.length
>     }
>   };
>
>   var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
>     console.log(res.statusCode);
>     res.emit('end'); // force the connection to close (IS THIS REALLY 
> CORRECT?)
>   });
>   req.end(body);
>
> If the server is configured to send the Connection: close header (or if I 
> include the res.emit('end')line) this works fine.  However if the server 
> doesn't send that header (and e.g. restify doesn't by default) my client 
> stops getting responses after about 5 requests have been sent.  The emit 
> trick was gleaned from here
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14459644/node-js-howto-close-response-request-while-retrieving-data-chuncks
>
> But is this really the "node correct" way to do this?
>

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