http: force socket encoding to be null

Otherwise the string triggers an assertion error in node_http_parser.c,
line 370:

    assert(Buffer::HasInstance(args[0]) == true);

because the first argument is not a Buffer object.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/_http_agent.js b/lib/_http_agent.js
index a6987dcf2e..022b633c75 100644
--- a/lib/_http_agent.js
+++ b/lib/_http_agent.js
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ Agent.prototype.createSocket = function(req, options) {
   var name = self.getName(options);
 
   debug('createConnection', name, options);
+  options.encoding = null;
   var s = self.createConnection(options);
   if (!self.sockets[name]) {
     self.sockets[name] = [];