Reusing the HTTPS connection to backend with NodeJS

[karlapudiravi]

Hi All,

My usecase is to reuse the connection while calling the backend services over HTTPS (2-way SSL). I have deployed the API proxy in APIGEE On Premise 4.16.05.02.

1)I am able to connect to my backend services with the request module of NodeJS as below.

var options = {

key: fs.readFileSync('./sample.key'),

cert: fs.readFileSync('./sample.crt'),

uri: url,

hostname: 'hostname',

port: 443,

method: 'GET',

agent: false,

};

request(options,function(err,res, body){

if (err || !res) {

return callback();

}

callback(null, body);

});

I have passed the following HTTP headers in the incoming request, however I do not see any significance performance improvement.

<Header name="Connection">Keep-Alive</Header>

<Header name="Keep-Alive">timeout=60</Header>

2)I have modified the above code to include the keepalive (agent:keepAliveAgent) to make sure that the connection is alive.

var keepAliveAgent = new require('https').Agent({ keepAlive: true });

when i pass the keepAliveAgent created as above to agent parameter of the options variable, i am getting the following errors :

Error: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure

1) I tried deploying the API proxy in 4.16.09.00 and getting the below error message.

[Error: socket hang up] message: 'socket hang up', code: 'ECONNRESET'

2)How do I resolve the SSL Handshake failure/socket hangup issues when using HTTPS Agent?

3)Any other suggestion on implementation of my usecase?