- server.close() closes idle keep-alive connections, and every open
connection closes after keepAliveTimeout + keepAliveTimeoutBuffer, so a
closed server whose clients keep their connections no longer stays up.
The Keep-Alive response header gives keepAliveTimeout in whole seconds
and is omitted when it is 0.
- A client request through an Agent with neither keepAlive nor a finite
maxSockets sends Connection: close.
- "socket hang up" and "aborted" errors carry code ECONNRESET, a client
head over the header limit fails with HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW, and TLS
verification failures carry their openssl code.
- Outgoing header values keep the type they were set with: getHeader and
getHeaders answer numbers and arrays, appendHeader turns an existing
value into an array, and setHeader(name, string[]) writes one line per
element.
- Repeated incoming header fields join with ", " ("; " for cookie),
Node's single-value fields keep the first value, and set-cookie reads
as an array under @types/node, on server requests and client responses.
Fetch reads response headers line by line.
- Expect: 100-continue is answered with 100 Continue before 'request';
other expectations answer 417.
- HEAD requests and 1xx/204/304 responses send no body or length header,
and HTTP/1.0 requests without a set length get an unframed body and
Connection: close.
- The 16 KiB maxHeaderSize applies to the request target plus header
names and values (431 on the server).
- https.Agent TLS options are refused by name instead of being dropped,
and server.address() lowers for @types/node's
string | AddressInfo | null result.
Corpus 5555-5563 and the node-types http-headers-address fixture cover
each case.
