1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/_http_outgoing.js b/lib/_http_outgoing.js
index eb68d091c6..80125f8c24 100644
--- a/lib/_http_outgoing.js
+++ b/lib/_http_outgoing.js
@@ -446,7 +446,13 @@ function matchHeader(self, state, field, value) {
 
 function validateHeaderName(name) {
   if (typeof name !== 'string' || !name || !checkIsHttpToken(name)) {
+    // Reducing the limit improves the performance significantly. We do not
+    // lose the stack frames due to the `captureStackTrace()` function that is
+    // called later.
+    const tmpLimit = Error.stackTraceLimit;
+    Error.stackTraceLimit = 0;
     const err = new ERR_INVALID_HTTP_TOKEN('Header name', name);
+    Error.stackTraceLimit = tmpLimit;
     Error.captureStackTrace(err, validateHeaderName);
     throw err;
   }
@@ -454,12 +460,18 @@ function validateHeaderName(name) {
 
 function validateHeaderValue(name, value) {
   let err;
+  // Reducing the limit improves the performance significantly. We do not loose
+  // the stack frames due to the `captureStackTrace()` function that is called
+  // later.
+  const tmpLimit = Error.stackTraceLimit;
+  Error.stackTraceLimit = 0;
   if (value === undefined) {
     err = new ERR_HTTP_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE(value, name);
   } else if (checkInvalidHeaderChar(value)) {
     debug('Header "%s" contains invalid characters', name);
     err = new ERR_INVALID_CHAR('header content', name);
   }
+  Error.stackTraceLimit = tmpLimit;
   if (err !== undefined) {
     Error.captureStackTrace(err, validateHeaderValue);
     throw err;