I am using Node.js (version 0.10.28) to make an `http.request` to my Ruby API for a large amount of data (21,000 rows from a PostgreSQL database). The problem is that the request seems to time out and return a 404 error after 1 minute. I know this is true as the Ruby API returns 61 seconds for the request, and I time how long the Node's request takes (results in 60 seconds and the 404). However, if I `wget` or use jQuery's `$.ajax` with a timeout of 4 minutes, I can get my 21,000 rows. So clearly it can't be a 404, as other ways of getting the data work.

I'm a little confused too because everywhere I look, the `http.request` isn't supposed to time out until after 2 minutes, according to:

[Node.js docs](http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_server_timeout)

[GitHub issue #1](https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/3460)

[GitHub issue #2](https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/4548)

I have tried several things to get this working, including: setting [express's middleware](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21708208/express-js-response-timeout); [listening for the socket timeout](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6214902/how-to-set-a-timeout-on-a-http-request-in-node) and resuming the request; and setting the timeout to 0, so there's no timeout. Unfortunately, none of these ways worked, or at least from what I've understood.

For some clarity, here's my code... setting that limit means return only 18,000 records, and that seems to be the cut off point for the API taking longer than 60 seconds:

```
var http = require('http');
var options = {
  path: '/api/records.json?limit=18000',
  method: 'GET',
  host: 'localhost',
  requestCert: true,
  rejectUnauthorized: false
};
var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
  var endDate = new Date();
  console.log('done', endDate - startDate);
  var output = [];
  res.on('data', function(chunk) {
    output.push(chunk);
  });
  res.on('end', function() {
    var data = output.join('');
    console.log(data);
    return {data: data, success: true};
  });
});
req.on('socket', function(socket) {
  socket.setTimeout(0);  // no timeout
  socket.on('timeout', function() {
    socket.resume();  // tried resuming the timeout
  });
});
req.end();
var startDate = new Date();
console.log('starting', startDate);

```

The API URL is valid and works, as I've verified that through `wget` and `$.ajax`, so how do I fix the timeout issue in Node?

**UPDATE**

Upon further inspection, if I take out `socket.setTimeout(0);` and try to get into the `socket.on('timeout'`, I don't actually get into the callback... which is odd, but it's always 60 seconds before I get the 404