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The Node.js's missing `keep alive` `http.Agent`. Support `http` and `https`.
## What's different from original `http.Agent`?
- `keepAlive=true` by default- Disable Nagle's algorithm: `socket.setNoDelay(true)`- Add free socket timeout: avoid long time inactivity socket leak in the free-sockets queue.- Add active socket timeout: avoid long time inactivity socket leak in the active-sockets queue.
## Install
```bash$ npm install agentkeepalive --save```
## new Agent([options])
* `options` {Object} Set of configurable options to set on the agent.  Can have the following fields:  * `keepAlive` {Boolean} Keep sockets around in a pool to be used by    other requests in the future. Default = `true`.  * `keepAliveMsecs` {Number} When using the keepAlive option, specifies the initial delay    for TCP Keep-Alive packets. Ignored when the keepAlive option is false or undefined. Defaults to 1000.    Default = `1000`.  Only relevant if `keepAlive` is set to `true`.  * `freeSocketKeepAliveTimeout`: {Number} Sets the free socket to timeout    after `freeSocketKeepAliveTimeout` milliseconds of inactivity on the free socket.    Default is `15000`.    Only relevant if `keepAlive` is set to `true`.  * `timeout`: {Number} Sets the working socket to timeout    after `timeout` milliseconds of inactivity on the working socket.    Default is `freeSocketKeepAliveTimeout * 2`.  * `maxSockets` {Number} Maximum number of sockets to allow per    host. Default = `Infinity`.  * `maxFreeSockets` {Number} Maximum number of sockets (per host) to leave open    in a free state. Only relevant if `keepAlive` is set to `true`.    Default = `256`.  * `socketActiveTTL` {Number} Sets the socket active time to live, even if it's in use.    If not setted the behaviour continues the same (the socket will be released only when free)    Default = `null`.
## Usage
```jsconst http = require('http');const Agent = require('agentkeepalive');
const keepaliveAgent = new Agent({  maxSockets: 100,  maxFreeSockets: 10,  timeout: 60000,  freeSocketKeepAliveTimeout: 30000, // free socket keepalive for 30 seconds});
const options = {  host: 'cnodejs.org',  port: 80,  path: '/',  method: 'GET',  agent: keepaliveAgent,};
const req = http.request(options, res => {  console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);  console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));  res.setEncoding('utf8');  res.on('data', function (chunk) {    console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);  });});req.on('error', e => {  console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);});req.end();
setTimeout(() => {  if (keepaliveAgent.statusChanged) {    console.log('[%s] agent status changed: %j', Date(), keepaliveAgent.getCurrentStatus());  }}, 2000);
```
### `getter agent.statusChanged`
counters have change or not after last checkpoint.
### `agent.getCurrentStatus()`
`agent.getCurrentStatus()` will return a object to show the status of this agent:
```js{  createSocketCount: 10,  closeSocketCount: 5,  timeoutSocketCount: 0,  requestCount: 5,  freeSockets: { 'localhost:57479:': 3 },  sockets: { 'localhost:57479:': 5 },  requests: {}}```
### Support `https`
```jsconst https = require('https');const HttpsAgent = require('agentkeepalive').HttpsAgent;
const keepaliveAgent = new HttpsAgent();// https://www.google.com/search?q=nodejs&sugexp=chrome,mod=12&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8const options = {  host: 'www.google.com',  port: 443,  path: '/search?q=nodejs&sugexp=chrome,mod=12&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8',  method: 'GET',  agent: keepaliveAgent,};
const req = https.request(options, res => {  console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);  console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));  res.setEncoding('utf8');  res.on('data', chunk => {    console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);  });});
req.on('error', e => {  console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);});req.end();
setTimeout(() => {  console.log('agent status: %j', keepaliveAgent.getCurrentStatus());}, 2000);```
## [Benchmark](https://github.com/node-modules/agentkeepalive/tree/master/benchmark)
run the benchmark:
```bashcd benchmarksh start.sh```
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8600  @ 2.40GHz
node@v0.8.9
50 maxSockets, 60 concurrent, 1000 requests per concurrent, 5ms delay
Keep alive agent (30 seconds):
```jsTransactions:          60000 hitsAvailability:         100.00 %Elapsed time:          29.70 secsData transferred:        14.88 MBResponse time:            0.03 secsTransaction rate:      2020.20 trans/secThroughput:           0.50 MB/secConcurrency:           59.84Successful transactions:       60000Failed transactions:             0Longest transaction:          0.15Shortest transaction:         0.01```
Normal agent:
```jsTransactions:          60000 hitsAvailability:         100.00 %Elapsed time:          46.53 secsData transferred:        14.88 MBResponse time:            0.05 secsTransaction rate:      1289.49 trans/secThroughput:           0.32 MB/secConcurrency:           59.81Successful transactions:       60000Failed transactions:             0Longest transaction:          0.45Shortest transaction:         0.00```
Socket created:
```[proxy.js:120000] keepalive, 50 created, 60000 requestFinished, 1200 req/socket, 0 requests, 0 sockets, 0 unusedSockets, 50 timeout{" <10ms":662," <15ms":17825," <20ms":20552," <30ms":17646," <40ms":2315," <50ms":567," <100ms":377," <150ms":56," <200ms":0," >=200ms+":0}----------------------------------------------------------------[proxy.js:120000] normal   , 53866 created, 84260 requestFinished, 1.56 req/socket, 0 requests, 0 sockets{" <10ms":75," <15ms":1112," <20ms":10947," <30ms":32130," <40ms":8228," <50ms":3002," <100ms":4274," <150ms":181," <200ms":18," >=200ms+":33}```
## License
```(The MIT License)
Copyright(c) node-modules and other contributors.Copyright(c) 2012 - 2015 fengmk2 <fengmk2@gmail.com>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaininga copy of this software and associated documentation files (the'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, includingwithout limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and topermit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject tothe following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall beincluded in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OFMERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANYCLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.```
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