How to kill a connection in nodejs

Question

How to kill a connection in nodejs

I have a homework assignment to build an http server using only node native modules. I am trying to protect the server from overloading, so each request is hashed and stores. If a certain request reaches a high number, say 500, I call socket.destroy().

Every interval (one minute) I restart the hash-table. Problem is that when I do a socket that was previously dead is now working again. The only thing I do each interval is requests = {}, and nothing to do with the connections.

Any ideas why the connection is live again? Is there a better function to use than destroy()?

Thanks

node.js
sockets
connection

Answer 1

Destroying the socket won't necessarily stop the client from retrying the request with a new socket.

You might instead try responding minimally with just a non-OK status code:

if (requests[path] >= 500) {
    res.statusCode = 503;
    res.end();
}

And, on the 503 status code:

The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server.