diff --git a/lib/_http_outgoing.js b/lib/_http_outgoing.js
index c6f68d4329c7da..c256e74260673d 100644
--- a/lib/_http_outgoing.js
+++ b/lib/_http_outgoing.js
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ function OutgoingMessage() {
   this._header = null;
   this[kOutHeaders] = null;
 
+  this._maxRequestsPerSocket = null;
   this._keepAliveTimeout = 0;
 
   this._onPendingData = nop;
@@ -448,9 +449,23 @@ function _storeHeader(firstLine, headers) {
         (state.contLen || this.useChunkedEncodingByDefault || this.agent);
     if (shouldSendKeepAlive) {
       header += 'Connection: keep-alive' + CRLF;
-      if (this._keepAliveTimeout && this._defaultKeepAlive) {
-        const timeoutSeconds = MathFloor(this._keepAliveTimeout / 1000);
-        header += `Keep-Alive: timeout=${timeoutSeconds}${CRLF}`;
+
+      if (this._defaultKeepAlive) {
+        let keepAliveParameters = '';
+
+        if (this._keepAliveTimeout) {
+          const timeoutSeconds = MathFloor(this._keepAliveTimeout / 1000);
+          keepAliveParameters += `timeout=${timeoutSeconds}`;
+        }
+
+        if (this._maxRequestsPerSocket) {
+          if (keepAliveParameters.length > 0) keepAliveParameters += ', ';
+          keepAliveParameters += `max=${this._maxRequestsPerSocket}`;
+        }
+
+        if (keepAliveParameters.length > 0) {
+          header += `Keep-Alive: ${keepAliveParameters}${CRLF}`;
+        }
       }
     } else {
       this._last = true;
diff --git a/lib/_http_server.js b/lib/_http_server.js
index 64cd44c066cf8a..54ef34738b17cb 100644
--- a/lib/_http_server.js
+++ b/lib/_http_server.js
@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ function Server(options, requestListener) {
   this.timeout = 0;
   this.keepAliveTimeout = 5000;
   this.maxHeadersCount = null;
+  this.maxRequestsPerSocket = null;
   this.headersTimeout = 60 * 1000; // 60 seconds
   this.requestTimeout = 0;
 }
@@ -486,6 +487,7 @@ function connectionListenerInternal(server, socket) {
     // need to pause TCP socket/HTTP parser, and wait until the data will be
     // sent to the client.
     outgoingData: 0,
+    requestsCount: 0,
     keepAliveTimeoutSet: false
   };
   state.onData = socketOnData.bind(undefined,
@@ -876,6 +878,7 @@ function parserOnIncoming(server, socket, state, req, keepAlive) {
 
   const res = new server[kServerResponse](req);
   res._keepAliveTimeout = server.keepAliveTimeout;
+  res._maxRequestsPerSocket = server.maxRequestsPerSocket;
   res._onPendingData = updateOutgoingData.bind(undefined,
                                                socket, state);
 
@@ -904,6 +907,16 @@ function parserOnIncoming(server, socket, state, req, keepAlive) {
          resOnFinish.bind(undefined,
                           req, res, socket, state, server));
 
+  if (req.httpVersionMajor === 1 && req.httpVersionMinor === 1
+    && typeof server.maxRequestsPerSocket === 'number'
+    && server.maxRequestsPerSocket > ++state.requestsCount) {
+      res.shouldKeepAlive = false;
+      res.writeHead(503, {
+        'Connection': 'close'
+      });
+      res.end();
+  }
+
   if (req.headers.expect !== undefined &&
       (req.httpVersionMajor === 1 && req.httpVersionMinor === 1)) {
     if (RegExpPrototypeTest(continueExpression, req.headers.expect)) {