nodejs / nodejs/package-maintenance
agentkeepalive spurious failure
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Description
I would like to give some attention to a long standing issue in a very popular ecosystem module agentkeepalive (1.5M weekly downloads).
The issue has made no progress for the past year and probably causes a lot of weird, spurious and intermittent failures in the wild where connections can reset just at the start of requests.
We confirmed this ourselves a few months ago and after being unable to fix it we stopped using the module.
I think the community needs a little help on this one.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked agentkeepalive issue #57 and its reports; this issue provides no repository file or test to run. A useful contribution would need to reproduce the intermittent connection reset and define a verified fix, but the scope is not specified here.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- node.js
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100