diff --git a/lib/http.js b/lib/http.js
index 6a5b9a7de4..ec562da86f 100644
--- a/lib/http.js
+++ b/lib/http.js
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ function socketCloseListener() {
   if (req.res && req.res.readable) {
     // Socket closed before we emitted "end" below.
     req.res.emit('aborted');
-    req.res.emit('end');
+    req.res._emitEnd();
     req.res.emit('close');
   } else if (!req.res && !req._hadError) {
     // This socket error fired before we started to