fix: reduce Connection keep-alive timeout to 1 second fewer than the Solana RPC's keep-alive timeout

web3.js/package.json

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
     "@noble/hashes": "^1.1.2",
     "@noble/secp256k1": "^1.6.3",
     "@solana/buffer-layout": "^4.0.0",
+    "agentkeepalive": "^4.2.1",
     "bigint-buffer": "^1.1.5",
     "bn.js": "^5.0.0",
     "borsh": "^0.7.0",

web3.js/src/connection.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
+import HttpKeepAliveAgent, {
+  HttpsAgent as HttpsKeepAliveAgent,
+} from 'agentkeepalive';
 import bs58 from 'bs58';
 import {Buffer} from 'buffer';
 // @ts-ignore
 import fastStableStringify from 'fast-stable-stringify';
-import type {Agent as HttpAgent} from 'http';
-import {Agent as HttpsAgent} from 'https';
+import type {Agent as NodeHttpAgent} from 'http';
+import {Agent as NodeHttpsAgent} from 'https';
 import {
   type as pick,
   number,
@@ -27,7 +30,6 @@ import {Client as RpcWebSocketClient} from 'rpc-websockets';
 import RpcClient from 'jayson/lib/client/browser';
 import {JSONRPCError} from 'jayson';
 
-import {AgentManager} from './agent-manager';
 import {EpochSchedule} from './epoch-schedule';
 import {SendTransactionError, SolanaJSONRPCError} from './errors';
 import fetchImpl, {Response} from './fetch-impl';
@@ -1452,12 +1454,10 @@ function createRpcClient(
   customFetch?: FetchFn,
   fetchMiddleware?: FetchMiddleware,
   disableRetryOnRateLimit?: boolean,
-  httpAgent?: HttpAgent | HttpsAgent | false,
+  httpAgent?: NodeHttpAgent | NodeHttpsAgent | false,
 ): RpcClient {
   const fetch = customFetch ? customFetch : fetchImpl;
-  let agentManager:
-    | {requestEnd(): void; requestStart(): HttpAgent | HttpsAgent}
-    | undefined;
+  let agent: NodeHttpAgent | NodeHttpsAgent | undefined;
   if (process.env.BROWSER) {
     if (httpAgent != null) {
       console.warn(
@@ -1468,29 +1468,38 @@ function createRpcClient(
   } else {
     if (httpAgent == null) {
       if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'test') {
-        agentManager = new AgentManager(
-          url.startsWith('https:') /* useHttps */,
-        );
+        const agentOptions = {
+          // One second fewer than the Solana RPC's keepalive timeout.
+          // Read more: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/issues/27859#issuecomment-1340097889
+          freeSocketTimeout: 19000,
+          keepAlive: true,
+          maxSockets: 25,
+        };
+        if (url.startsWith('https:')) {
+          agent = new HttpsKeepAliveAgent(agentOptions);
+        } else {
+          agent = new HttpKeepAliveAgent(agentOptions);
+        }
       }
     } else {
       if (httpAgent !== false) {
         const isHttps = url.startsWith('https:');
-        if (isHttps && !(httpAgent instanceof HttpsAgent)) {
+        if (isHttps && !(httpAgent instanceof NodeHttpsAgent)) {
           throw new Error(
             'The endpoint `' +
               url +
               '` can only be paired with an `https.Agent`. You have, instead, supplied an ' +
               '`http.Agent` through `httpAgent`.',
           );
-        } else if (!isHttps && httpAgent instanceof HttpsAgent) {
+        } else if (!isHttps && httpAgent instanceof NodeHttpsAgent) {
           throw new Error(
             'The endpoint `' +
               url +
               '` can only be paired with an `http.Agent`. You have, instead, supplied an ' +
               '`https.Agent` through `httpAgent`.',
           );
         }
-        agentManager = {requestEnd() {}, requestStart: () => httpAgent};
+        agent = httpAgent;
       }
     }
   }
@@ -1515,7 +1524,6 @@ function createRpcClient(
   }
 
   const clientBrowser = new RpcClient(async (request, callback) => {
-    const agent = agentManager ? agentManager.requestStart() : undefined;
     const options = {
       method: 'POST',
       body: request,
@@ -1565,8 +1573,6 @@ function createRpcClient(
       }
     } catch (err) {
       if (err instanceof Error) callback(err);
-    } finally {
-      agentManager && agentManager.requestEnd();
     }
   }, {});
 
@@ -2898,7 +2904,7 @@ export type ConnectionConfig = {
    * persistence). Set this to `false` to create a connection that uses no agent. This applies to
    * Node environments only.
    */
-  httpAgent?: HttpAgent | HttpsAgent | false;
+  httpAgent?: NodeHttpAgent | NodeHttpsAgent | false;
   /** Optional commitment level */
   commitment?: Commitment;
   /** Optional endpoint URL to the fullnode JSON RPC PubSub WebSocket Endpoint */

web3.js/yarn.lock

@@ -1834,14 +1834,23 @@ agent-base@6, agent-base@^6.0.0, agent-base@^6.0.2:
   dependencies:
     debug "4"
 
-agentkeepalive@^4.1.3, agentkeepalive@^4.2.1:
+agentkeepalive@^4.1.3:
   version "4.2.1"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/agentkeepalive/-/agentkeepalive-4.2.1.tgz"
   dependencies:
     debug "^4.1.0"
     depd "^1.1.2"
     humanize-ms "^1.2.1"
 
+agentkeepalive@^4.2.1:
+  version "4.2.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/agentkeepalive/-/agentkeepalive-4.2.1.tgz#a7975cbb9f83b367f06c90cc51ff28fe7d499717"
+  integrity sha512-Zn4cw2NEqd+9fiSVWMscnjyQ1a8Yfoc5oBajLeo5w+YBHgDUcEBY2hS4YpTz6iN5f/2zQiktcuM6tS8x1p9dpA==
+  dependencies:
+    debug "^4.1.0"
+    depd "^1.1.2"
+    humanize-ms "^1.2.1"
+
 aggregate-error@^3.0.0:
   version "3.1.0"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/aggregate-error/-/aggregate-error-3.1.0.tgz"