diff --git a/lib/_http_incoming.js b/lib/_http_incoming.js
index 31b7db6f6c7c99..bb76d6eaefc34d 100644
--- a/lib/_http_incoming.js
+++ b/lib/_http_incoming.js
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ function IncomingMessage(socket) {
   this.statusMessage = null;
   this.client = socket;
 
+  // TODO: Deprecate and remove.
   this._consuming = false;
   // Flag for when we decide that this message cannot possibly be
   // read by the user, so there's no point continuing to handle it.
diff --git a/lib/_http_server.js b/lib/_http_server.js
index 64cd44c066cf8a..8d9321d28b9919 100644
--- a/lib/_http_server.js
+++ b/lib/_http_server.js
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ function resOnFinish(req, res, socket, state, server) {
   // If the user never called req.read(), and didn't pipe() or
   // .resume() or .on('data'), then we call req._dump() so that the
   // bytes will be pulled off the wire.
-  if (!req._consuming && !req._readableState.resumeScheduled)
+  if (!req.readableDidRead)
     req._dump();
 
   // Make sure the requestTimeout is cleared before finishing.
diff --git a/lib/internal/streams/readable.js b/lib/internal/streams/readable.js
index 69f5b52496ad29..c789a51a4b3cdb 100644
--- a/lib/internal/streams/readable.js
+++ b/lib/internal/streams/readable.js
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ function ReadableState(options, stream, isDuplex) {
   // If true, a maybeReadMore has been scheduled.
   this.readingMore = false;
 
+  this.didRead = false;
+
   this.decoder = null;
   this.encoding = null;
   if (options && options.encoding) {
@@ -542,6 +544,8 @@ Readable.prototype.read = function(n) {
   if (ret !== null)
     this.emit('data', ret);
 
+  state.didRead = true;
+
   return ret;
 };
 
@@ -845,7 +849,9 @@ function pipeOnDrain(src, dest) {
 
     if ((!state.awaitDrainWriters || state.awaitDrainWriters.size === 0) &&
       EE.listenerCount(src, 'data')) {
+      // TODO(ronag): Call resume() instead?
       state.flowing = true;
+      state.didRead = true;
       flow(src);
     }
   };
@@ -993,6 +999,7 @@ Readable.prototype.resume = function() {
 function resume(stream, state) {
   if (!state.resumeScheduled) {
     state.resumeScheduled = true;
+    state.didRead = true;
     process.nextTick(resume_, stream, state);
   }
 }
@@ -1177,6 +1184,13 @@ ObjectDefineProperties(Readable.prototype, {
     }
   },
 
+  readableDidRead: {
+    enumerable: false,
+    get: function() {
+      return this._readableState.didRead;
+    }
+  },
+
   readableHighWaterMark: {
     enumerable: false,
     get: function() {
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-stream-readable-didRead.js b/test/parallel/test-stream-readable-didRead.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..18e2da97e88e94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-stream-readable-didRead.js
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const Readable = require('stream').Readable;
+
+{
+  const readable = new Readable({
+    read: () => {}
+  });
+
+  assert.strictEqual(readable.readableDidRead, false);
+  readable.read();
+  assert.strictEqual(readable.readableDidRead, true);
+}
+
+{
+  const readable = new Readable({
+    read: () => {}
+  });
+
+  assert.strictEqual(readable.readableDidRead, false);
+  readable.resume();
+  assert.strictEqual(readable.readableDidRead, true);
+}