diff --git a/lib/_http_client.js b/lib/_http_client.js
index e972a3d5b9e9fd..e0374ce493b86a 100644
--- a/lib/_http_client.js
+++ b/lib/_http_client.js
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ function socketCloseListener() {
   // NOTE: It's important to get parser here, because it could be freed by
   // the `socketOnData`.
   var parser = socket.parser;
-  req.emit('close');
+
   if (req.res && req.res.readable) {
     // Socket closed before we emitted 'end' below.
     req.res.emit('aborted');
@@ -375,8 +375,11 @@ function socketCloseListener() {
     // fire on the request.
     req.socket._hadError = true;
     req.emit('error', createHangUpError());
+    req.emit('aborted');
   }
 
+  req.emit('close');
+
   // Too bad.  That output wasn't getting written.
   // This is pretty terrible that it doesn't raise an error.
   // Fixed better in v0.10