From 89a22bc00396f069eeb054ce30891a204077d16d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarrett Cruger <jcrugzz@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:07:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [fix] set connection to CLOSE in cases where the agent is
 false.

---
 lib/http-proxy/common.js | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/http-proxy/common.js b/lib/http-proxy/common.js
index 1c838c9..51df138 100644
--- a/lib/http-proxy/common.js
+++ b/lib/http-proxy/common.js
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ common.setupOutgoing = function(outgoing, options, req, forward) {
 
   outgoing.agent = options.agent || false;
 
+  //
+  // Remark: If we are false set the connection: close. This is the right thing to do
+  // as node core doesn't handle this COMPLETELY properly yet.
+  //
+  if(!outgoing.agent) {
+    outgoing.headers = outgoing.headers || {};
+    outgoing.headers.connection = 'close';
+  }
+
   //
   // Remark: Can we somehow not use url.parse as a perf optimization?
   //