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@zentrick/alpn-agent

v0.1.2

Published

Negotiates ALPN and handles transparent https and h2 connections

Downloads

4

Readme

alpn-agent

A helper library to deal with ALPN negotiation of TLS connections.

Exposes an ALPNAgent class which inherits from https.Agent but extends it with the following:

  • ALPNAgent#negotiateALPN(options) which connects to the specified host and negotiates the ALPN protocol, returning a Promise to the negotiated protocol as a string.
  • ALPNAgent#createH1Session(options) which connects to the specified host and negotiates an http/1.1 TLS socket. Returns a Promise to a Node tls.TLSSocket.
  • ALPNAgent#createH2Session(options) which connects to the specified host and negotiates an h2 session. Returns a Promise to a Node http2.ClientHttp2Session.

Use as a standard Agent

Because ALPNAgent inherits from https.Agent you can use it as a drop-in replacement in any existing https request, without having to use the h2 capabilities.

Use in "mixed mode"

To use the library to its full potential, you'd follow the following pattern when performing an HTTP request:

if (options.protocol === 'https') {
  const alpnProto = await alpnAgent.negotiateALPN(options)
  if (alpnProto === 'h2') {
    const session = await alpnAgent.createH2Session(options)
    // perform standard h2 request against this `ClientHttp2Session`
  } else {
    // perform standard https request with `agent` option set to the `ALPNAgent`
    // instance
  }
} else {
  // perform standard http request with `agent` option set to a standard
  // `http.Agent` instance
}

Optimizations

  • Calling negotiateALPN might establish a new socket to the remote host, this socket will be remembered in a cache for future use when you perform a request against this remote host.
  • Calling negotiateALPN will return without establishing a new connection, if an existing negotiated connection is already available to provide the answer.
  • The ALPNAgent will maintain a TLS session cache for you which will enable fast session resumption on subsequent connections.
  • By default, the Nagle algorithm will be disabled on all sockets by calling socket.setNoDelay(true).
  • You can provide an optional lookup function through the ALPNAgent constructor options if you'd like to redirect DNS lookups to your own function. This can be useful if you'd like to cache DNS responses locally.