agentkeepalive-ntlm

The Node.js's missing keep alive http.Agent. Support http and https. With NTLM Support

What's different from original agentkeepalive?

• takes in a new config parameter 'cookieName' to uniquely identify a usersession. The cookieName defined has to be present in req.headers. This should ideally be a usersession cookie or can be any cookieName that uniquely identifies a user.

The main motivation for this fork from agentkeepalive was to support user specific NTLM sessions. For NTLM to work, the TCP connection has to be authorized for a user. When we use the base 'agentkeepalive', sockets are authorized using a combination of the host + port. eg yahoo.com:443. However if multiple users are trying to access a NTLM enabled site, the socket connections were getting mixed up between users. Changed the implementation to include 'host+port+cookieName' while assigning sockets

Another issue that was a problem for NTLM was that the socket pool was defaulted to 100 or Infinity. Since NTLM works on the principal of the same user connecting over a authorized socket, we should reuse the same socket per URL for a user. That means at a given time, for a host:port:user combination, there should only be 1 socket alive. e.g create/reuse 1 socket for yahoo.com:433:user_1 and create/reuse another socket for gmail.com:433:user_1.

Install

$ npm install agentkeepalive-ntlm --save

new Agent([options])

• options {Object} Set of configurable options to set on the agent. Can have the following fields:
  • keepAlive {Boolean} Keep sockets around in a pool to be used by other requests in the future. Default = true.
  • keepAliveMsecs {Number} When using HTTP KeepAlive, how often to send TCP KeepAlive packets over sockets being kept alive. Default = 1000. Only relevant if keepAlive is set to true.
  • freeSocketKeepAliveTimeout: {Number} Sets the free socket to timeout after freeSocketKeepAliveTimeout milliseconds of inactivity on the free socket. Default is 15000. Only relevant if keepAlive is set to true.
  • timeout: {Number} Sets the working socket to timeout after timeout milliseconds of inactivity on the working socket. Default is freeSocketKeepAliveTimeout * 2.
  • maxSockets {Number} Maximum number of sockets to allow per host. Default = Infinity.
  • maxFreeSockets {Number} Maximum number of sockets to leave open in a free state. Only relevant if keepAlive is set to true. Default = 256.
  • cookieName {string} The name of a cookie in the http request header that clearly identifies a unique user session. Defaults to ''.

Usage

const http = require('http');
const Agent = require('agentkeepalive-ntlm');
 
const keepaliveAgentNTLM = new Agent({
  maxSockets: 100,
  maxFreeSockets: 10,
  timeout: 60000,
  freeSocketKeepAliveTimeout: 30000, // free socket keepalive for 30 seconds
  cookieName: 'mycookie'
});
 
const options = {
  host: 'cnodejs.org',
  port: 80,
  path: '/',
  method: 'GET',
  agent: keepaliveAgentNTLM,
};
 
const req = http.request(options, res => {
  console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
  console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  res.on('data', function (chunk) {
    console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
  });
});
req.on('error', e => {
  console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);
});
req.end();
 
setTimeout(() => {
  console.log('agent status: %j', keepaliveAgentNTLM.getCurrentStatus());
}, 2000);
 

agent.getCurrentStatus()

agent.getCurrentStatus() will return a object to show the status of this agent:

{
  createSocketCount: 10,
  closeSocketCount: 5,
  timeoutSocketCount: 0,
  requestCount: 5,
  freeSockets: { 'localhost:57479:': 3 },
  sockets: { 'localhost:57479:': 5 },
  requests: {}
}

Support https

const https = require('https');
const HttpsAgent = require('agentkeepalive-ntlm').HttpsAgent;
 
const keepaliveAgentNTLM = new HttpsAgent();
// https://www.google.com/search?q=nodejs&sugexp=chrome,mod=12&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
const options = {
  host: 'www.google.com',
  port: 443,
  path: '/search?q=nodejs&sugexp=chrome,mod=12&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8',
  method: 'GET',
  agent: keepaliveAgentNTLM,
};
 
const req = https.request(options, res => {
  console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
  console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  res.on('data', chunk => {
    console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
  });
});
 
req.on('error', e => {
  console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);
});
req.end();
 
setTimeout(() => {
  console.log('agent status: %j', keepaliveAgentNTLM.getCurrentStatus());
}, 2000);
 
## License
 
Copyright © 2017, [Paddy Viswanathan](https://github.com/pappan123).
Released under the [MIT license]