diff --git a/src/js/node/_http_server.ts b/src/js/node/_http_server.ts
index 1e0bcc316d13..25069be08790 100644
--- a/src/js/node/_http_server.ts
+++ b/src/js/node/_http_server.ts
@@ -755,6 +755,9 @@ Server.prototype[kRealListen] = function (tls, port, host, socketPath, reusePort
             // Node.js's parserOnIncoming: req.upgrade is true for CONNECT
             // regardless of shouldUpgradeCallback.
             http_req.upgrade = true;
+            // llhttp completes a CONNECT request at the end of its headers, so
+            // Node's 'connect' listener already sees req.complete === true.
+            http_req.complete = true;
             // Node frees the parser before handing the raw socket to 'connect'.
             releaseServerParserShim(socket, http_req);
             server.emit("connect", http_req, socket, head);
@@ -970,6 +973,11 @@ Server.prototype[kRealListen] = function (tls, port, host, socketPath, reusePort
           if (hasBody) {
             socket[kUpgradeIncoming] = http_req;
             http_req.once("end", clearUpgradeIncoming.bind(undefined, socket));
+          } else {
+            // llhttp completes an Upgrade request without a body at the end
+            // of its headers, so Node's 'upgrade' listener already sees
+            // req.complete === true.
+            http_req.complete = true;
           }
           const upgradeHead = !hasBody && connectHead ? connectHead : kEmptyBuffer;
           let upgradeHandled;
@@ -2369,8 +2377,17 @@ function emitResponseFinish() {
   // req.socket is nulled by the stream destroyer (pipeline/compose cleanup);
   // the response's own socket (set by assignSocket, cleared only by
   // detachSocket) still references the connection then.
-  const socket = this.req?.socket ?? this.socket;
+  const req = this.req;
+  const socket = req?.socket ?? this.socket;
   onResponseFinishHandleSocket(socket?.server, socket, this);
+  // Like Node's clearIncoming: a request that already ended (for example one
+  // that optimizeEmptyRequests pre-dumped, which never reaches
+  // emitEOFIncomingMessageOuter) must not stay reachable from socket.parser
+  // while the kept-alive connection idles.
+  if (req != null && req.readableEnded) {
+    const parser = socket?.parser;
+    if (parser != null && parser.incoming === req) parser.incoming = null;
+  }
   // The dispatcher detached a synchronously-finished response itself;
   // advancing the pipeline again here would skip a queued response.
   if (this[kDispatcherDetached]) return;
diff --git a/src/runtime/server/NodeHTTPResponse.rs b/src/runtime/server/NodeHTTPResponse.rs
index 15977391c7e4..69609d8c4ba8 100644
--- a/src/runtime/server/NodeHTTPResponse.rs
+++ b/src/runtime/server/NodeHTTPResponse.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ use bstr::BStr;
 
 use bun_collections::VecExt;
 use bun_core::scoped_log;
-use bun_http::Method as HttpMethod;
 use bun_jsc::JsCell;
 use bun_ptr::AsCtxPtr;
 use bun_uws as uws;
@@ -2596,23 +2595,22 @@ pub(crate) unsafe extern "C" fn NodeHTTPResponse__createForJS(
     let request_ref = bun_opaque::opaque_deref(request.cast_const());
 
     let vm = bun_vm_mut(global_object);
-    let method = HttpMethod::which(request_ref.method()).unwrap_or(HttpMethod::OPTIONS);
-    // GET in node.js can have a body
-    if method.has_request_body() || method == HttpMethod::GET {
-        let req_len: usize = 'brk: {
-            if let Some(content_length) = request_ref.header(b"content-length") {
-                scoped_log!(
-                    NodeHTTPResponse,
-                    "content-length: {}",
-                    BStr::new(content_length)
-                );
-                break 'brk bun_http_types::parse_content_length(content_length);
-            }
-            break 'brk 0;
-        };
+    // Like llhttp, the framing headers decide whether a request has a body
+    // for every method: node delivers the body of a HEAD or TRACE request
+    // that declares one.
+    let req_len: usize = 'brk: {
+        if let Some(content_length) = request_ref.header(b"content-length") {
+            scoped_log!(
+                NodeHTTPResponse,
+                "content-length: {}",
+                BStr::new(content_length)
+            );
+            break 'brk bun_http_types::parse_content_length(content_length);
+        }
+        break 'brk 0;
+    };
 
-        *has_body = req_len > 0 || request_ref.has_transfer_encoding();
-    }
+    *has_body = req_len > 0 || request_ref.has_transfer_encoding();
 
     let raw_response = if is_ssl != 0 {
         uws::AnyResponse::SSL(response_ptr.cast())
diff --git a/test/js/node/http/node-http.test.ts b/test/js/node/http/node-http.test.ts
index 71ad7e6435d6..aeec37b0aaa4 100644
--- a/test/js/node/http/node-http.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/node/http/node-http.test.ts
@@ -4668,3 +4668,94 @@ it("connectionListener pauses reads when queued pipelined responses back up", as
   clientSide.destroy();
   serverSide.destroy();
 });
+
+describe("request completion (req.complete, socket.parser.incoming)", () => {
+  function rawClient(server: Server, request: string) {
+    const { port, address } = server.address() as AddressInfo;
+    const client = connect(port, address, () => client.write(request));
+    client.on("error", () => {});
+    client.on("data", () => {});
+    return client;
+  }
+
+  test("req.complete is true inside a 'connect' listener", async () => {
+    await using server = createServer();
+    server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1");
+    await once(server, "listening");
+    let sawComplete: boolean | undefined;
+    server.on("connect", (req, socket) => {
+      sawComplete = req.complete;
+      socket.destroy();
+    });
+    const client = rawClient(server, "CONNECT example.com:443 HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com:443\r\n\r\n");
+    const [req] = await once(server, "connect");
+    expect(sawComplete).toBe(true);
+    await new Promise(resolve => process.nextTick(resolve));
+    expect(req.complete).toBe(true);
+    await once(client, "close");
+  });
+
+  test("req.complete is true inside an 'upgrade' listener for a request without a body", async () => {
+    await using server = createServer();
+    server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1");
+    await once(server, "listening");
+    let sawComplete: boolean | undefined;
+    server.on("upgrade", (req, socket) => {
+      sawComplete = req.complete;
+      socket.destroy();
+    });
+    const client = rawClient(server, "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nConnection: Upgrade\r\nUpgrade: websocket\r\n\r\n");
+    const [req] = await once(server, "upgrade");
+    expect(sawComplete).toBe(true);
+    await new Promise(resolve => process.nextTick(resolve));
+    expect(req.complete).toBe(true);
+    await once(client, "close");
+  });
+
+  for (const method of ["HEAD", "TRACE"]) {
+    test(`a ${method} request that declares a body delivers it and completes only once it arrived`, async () => {
+      await using server = createServer();
+      server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1");
+      await once(server, "listening");
+      const chunks: Buffer[] = [];
+      const body = Promise.withResolvers<string>();
+      server.on("request", (req, res) => {
+        req.on("data", c => chunks.push(c));
+        req.on("end", () => {
+          body.resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString());
+          res.end();
+        });
+      });
+      // The headers go first. The declared body follows only once the
+      // request has been dispatched.
+      const client = rawClient(server, `${method} / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nContent-Length: 5\r\n\r\n`);
+      const [req] = await once(server, "request");
+      await new Promise(resolve => process.nextTick(resolve));
+      expect(req.complete).toBe(false);
+      client.write("hello");
+      expect(await body.promise).toBe("hello");
+      expect(req.complete).toBe(true);
+      client.destroy();
+      await once(client, "close");
+    });
+  }
+
+  test("optimizeEmptyRequests: socket.parser.incoming does not keep the request once the response finished", async () => {
+    const closed = Promise.withResolvers<{ atRequest: boolean; atClose: boolean }>();
+    await using server = createServer({ optimizeEmptyRequests: true }, (req, res) => {
+      const socket = req.socket;
+      const atRequest = socket.parser.incoming === req;
+      // The keep-alive connection idles after this response. Node cleared
+      // parser.incoming in resOnFinish because the pre-dumped request had
+      // already ended.
+      res.on("close", () => closed.resolve({ atRequest, atClose: socket.parser.incoming === req }));
+      res.end("ok");
+    });
+    server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1");
+    await once(server, "listening");
+    const client = rawClient(server, "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\n\r\n");
+    expect(await closed.promise).toEqual({ atRequest: true, atClose: false });
+    client.destroy();
+    await once(client, "close");
+  });
+});