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Aroh Sunday

I need your assistance to get this resolve. Thanks

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Aroh Sunday • Edited

@ross Coundon, I would appreciate your assistance from the wealth of your experience in the field interacting with several third part API on how I can make a concurrent request to the server without experience the "socket hangout issue". In the first interaction of the loop shown above, I will get results from the third-party API but on the second iteration, there will be a delay for a response from the third party and hence the error message below

Trace: { Error: socket hang up
    at createHangUpError (_http_client.js:323:15)
    at TLSSocket.socketOnEnd (_http_client.js:426:23)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:194:15)
    at TLSSocket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:441:20)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1125:12)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)
  code: 'ECONNRESET',
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Ross Coundon

Hi - I'm not sure what to suggest, are you able to share what the 3rd party API is? Do they provide any documentation/information on acceptable usage, time between requests, number of concurrent requests etc?

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Aroh Sunday

They do not have that spell out on their API documentation. I have sent a mail to them to inquire about the acceptable usage, the time between requests, number of concurrent requests