gistfile.patch

From 6765c58a27f9a9ef4a7820e10259e464d9fbbb33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: isaacs <i@izs.me>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 16:03:34 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] http: do not reuse socket on error responses

Some servers (in this case, CouchDB) behave very oddly when you attempt
to re-use a socket that returned an error response.
---
 lib/_http_client.js | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/_http_client.js b/lib/_http_client.js
index 5e722b4..9a37f5b 100644
--- a/lib/_http_client.js
+++ b/lib/_http_client.js
@@ -391,6 +391,10 @@ function parserOnIncomingClient(res, shouldKeepAlive) {
     req.shouldKeepAlive = false;
   }
 
+  // some servers are weird about re-using sockets that had HTTP errors.
+  if (res.statusCode > 399) {
+    req.shouldKeepAlive = false;
+  }
 
   DTRACE_HTTP_CLIENT_RESPONSE(socket, req);
   LTTNG_HTTP_CLIENT_RESPONSE(socket, req);
-- 
2.2.1