diff --git a/lib/_http_client.js b/lib/_http_client.js
index cb50dab1a1caa9..f9fd3700c3d19d 100644
--- a/lib/_http_client.js
+++ b/lib/_http_client.js
@@ -336,7 +336,16 @@ function ClientRequest(input, options, cb) {
     // No agent, default to Connection:close.
     this._last = true;
     this.shouldKeepAlive = false;
-    if (typeof optsWithoutSignal.createConnection === 'function') {
+    let opts = optsWithoutSignal;
+    if (opts.path || opts.socketPath) {
+      opts = { ...optsWithoutSignal };
+      if (opts.socketPath) {
+        opts.path = opts.socketPath;
+      } else if (opts.path) {
+        opts.path = undefined;
+      }
+    }
+    if (typeof opts.createConnection === 'function') {
       const oncreate = once((err, socket) => {
         if (err) {
           process.nextTick(() => this.emit('error', err));
@@ -346,8 +355,7 @@ function ClientRequest(input, options, cb) {
       });
 
       try {
-        const newSocket = optsWithoutSignal.createConnection(optsWithoutSignal,
-                                                             oncreate);
+        const newSocket = opts.createConnection(opts, oncreate);
         if (newSocket) {
           oncreate(null, newSocket);
         }
@@ -355,8 +363,8 @@ function ClientRequest(input, options, cb) {
         oncreate(err);
       }
     } else {
-      debug('CLIENT use net.createConnection', optsWithoutSignal);
-      this.onSocket(net.createConnection(optsWithoutSignal));
+      debug('CLIENT use net.createConnection', opts);
+      this.onSocket(net.createConnection(opts));
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http-client-with-create-connection.js b/test/parallel/test-http-client-with-create-connection.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..5c99de6c496ba5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-http-client-with-create-connection.js
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+const http = require('http');
+const net = require('net');
+const tmpdir = require('../common/tmpdir');
+
+tmpdir.refresh();
+
+let count = 0;
+let server1;
+let server2;
+
+function request(options) {
+  count++;
+  http.get({
+    ...options,
+    createConnection: (...args) => {
+      return net.connect(...args);
+    }
+  }, (res) => {
+    res.resume();
+    res.on('end', () => {
+      if (--count === 0) {
+        server1.close();
+        server2.close();
+      }
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+server1 = http.createServer((req, res) => {
+  res.end('ok');
+}).listen(common.PIPE, () => {
+  server2 = http.createServer((req, res) => {
+    res.end('ok');
+  }).listen(() => {
+    request({
+      path: '/',
+      socketPath: common.PIPE,
+    });
+
+    request({
+      socketPath: common.PIPE,
+    });
+
+    request({
+      path: '/',
+      port: server2.address().port,
+    });
+
+    request({
+      port: server2.address().port,
+    });
+  });
+});