MaxSockets & Load Testing

[shapeshed]

I've been using this great library to do some load testing of servers.

I found that the default MaxSockets is set to 5 so I added a hack to support more than 5.

https://github.com/shapeshed/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/master/lib/XMLHttpRequest.js#L26-L29

It would be great if this was exposed somehow to support load testing scenarios.

[EugenDueck]

@shapeshed Are you sure your version of XMLHttpRequest.js works as expected? Although you do set http.globalAgent.maxSockets, the global agent is not being used, search for agent: false in that file.

That behavior had changed a while before your patch, so maybe what you checked out and the sources in your repo differ.

In any event, my proposed pull request would allow you to pass in any agent you like into XHR, including the global agent. And you can of course set maxSockets on that agent.