diff --git a/lib/wsdl.js b/lib/wsdl.js
index 7070859d8..554bbdc19 100644
--- a/lib/wsdl.js
+++ b/lib/wsdl.js
@@ -1893,7 +1893,7 @@ function open_wsdl(uri, options, callback) {
   }
   else {
     debug('Reading url: %s', uri);
-    var httpClient = new HttpClient(options);
+    var httpClient = options.httpClient || new HttpClient(options);
     httpClient.request(uri, null /* options */, function(err, response, definition) {
       if (err) {
         callback(err);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f5aabb302..744154902 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
     "jshint": "2.3.0",
     "glob": "~3.2.8",
     "should": "~3.3.0",
-    "timekeeper": "~0.0.4"
+    "timekeeper": "~0.0.4",
+    "duplexer": "~0.1.1",
+    "readable-stream": "~2.0.2",
+    "semver": "~5.0.3"
   }
 }
diff --git a/test/client-customHttp-test.js b/test/client-customHttp-test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..81df60e5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/client-customHttp-test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var fs = require('fs'),
+    soap = require('..'),
+    http = require('http'),
+    assert = require('assert'),
+  duplexer = require('duplexer'),
+  req = require('request'),
+  httpClient = require('../lib/http.js'),
+ // stream = require('stream'),
+  stream = require('readable-stream'),
+  util = require('util'),
+  events = require('events'),
+  semver = require('semver'),
+  should = require('should');
+
+it('should allow customization of httpClient and the wsdl file download should pass through it', function(done) {
+  
+//Make a custom http agent to use streams instead on net socket
+  function CustomAgent(options, socket){
+    var self = this;
+    events.EventEmitter.call(this);
+    self.requests = [];
+    self.maxSockets = 1;
+    self.proxyStream = socket;
+    self.options = options || {};
+    self.proxyOptions = {};
+  }
+  
+  util.inherits(CustomAgent, events.EventEmitter);
+    
+  CustomAgent.prototype.addRequest = function(req, options) {
+    req.onSocket(this.proxyStream);
+  };
+    
+  //Create a duplex stream 
+    
+  var httpReqStream = new stream.PassThrough();
+  var httpResStream = new stream.PassThrough();
+  var socketStream = duplexer(httpReqStream, httpResStream);
+  
+
+  //Custom httpClient  
+  function MyHttpClient (options, socket){
+    httpClient.call(this,options);
+    this.agent = new CustomAgent(options, socket);
+  }
+    
+  util.inherits(MyHttpClient, httpClient);
+    
+  MyHttpClient.prototype.request = function(rurl, data, callback, exheaders, exoptions) {
+    var self = this;
+    var options = self.buildRequest(rurl, data, exheaders, exoptions);
+    //Specify agent to use
+    options.agent = this.agent;
+    var headers = options.headers;
+    var req = self._request(options, function(err, res, body) {
+      if (err) {
+        return callback(err);
+      }
+      body = self.handleResponse(req, res, body);
+      callback(null, res, body);
+    });
+    if (headers.Connection !== 'keep-alive') {
+      req.end(data);
+    }
+    return req;
+  };
+  
+  var wsdl = fs.readFileSync('./test/wsdl/default_namespace.wsdl').toString('utf8');
+  //Should be able to read from stream the request 
+  httpReqStream.once('readable', function readRequest() {
+    var chunk = httpReqStream.read();
+    should.exist(chunk);
+    
+    //This is for compatibility with old node releases <= 0.10
+    //Hackish
+    if(semver.lt(process.version, '0.11.0'))
+    {
+      socketStream.on('data', function(data) {
+        socketStream.ondata(data,0,1984);
+      });
+    }
+    //Now write the response with the wsdl
+    var state = httpResStream.write('HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8\r\nContent-Length: 1904\r\n\r\n'+wsdl);
+  });
+
+  var httpCustomClient = new MyHttpClient({}, socketStream);
+  var url = 'http://localhost:50000/Platform.asmx?wsdl';
+  soap.createClient(url,
+    {httpClient: httpCustomClient},
+    function(err, client) {
+      assert.ok(client);
+      assert.ok(!err);
+      assert.equal(client.httpClient, httpCustomClient);
+      var description = (client.describe());
+      assert.deepEqual(client.describe(), {
+        MyService: {
+          MyServicePort: {
+            MyOperation: {
+              input: {
+              },
+              output: {
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      });
+      done();
+    });
+});
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