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ClientRequest.prototype.reusedSocket - node__http.d.ts - Node documentation
property ClientRequest.prototype.reusedSocket

Usage in Deno

```typescript import { ClientRequest } from "node:node__http.d.ts"; ```
When sending request through a keep-alive enabled agent, the underlying socket might be reused. But if server closes connection at unfortunate time, client may run into a 'ECONNRESET' error. ```js import http from 'node:http'; // Server has a 5 seconds keep-alive timeout by default http .createServer((req, res) => { res.write('hello\n'); res.end(); }) .listen(3000); setInterval(() => { // Adapting a keep-alive agent http.get('http://localhost:3000', { agent }, (res) => { res.on('data', (data) => { // Do nothing }); }); }, 5000); // Sending request on 5s interval so it's easy to hit idle timeout ``` By marking a request whether it reused socket or not, we can do automatic error retry base on it. ```js import http from 'node:http'; const agent = new http.Agent({ keepAlive: true }); function retriableRequest() { const req = http .get('http://localhost:3000', { agent }, (res) => { // ... }) .on('error', (err) => { // Check if retry is needed if (req.reusedSocket && err.code === 'ECONNRESET') { retriableRequest(); } }); } retriableRequest(); ```

Type

boolean