diff --git a/lib/http/base.js b/lib/http/base.js
index 4e48a9056..b2ba8f8f4 100644
--- a/lib/http/base.js
+++ b/lib/http/base.js
@@ -99,8 +99,12 @@ HttpClient.prototype.request = function (options)
       mock);
 
     requestOptions.data = requestOptions.body;
-    requestOptions.httpsAgent = agentAndProxyOptions.agentClass(agentAndProxyOptions.agentOptions);
-    requestOptions.httpsAgent.keepAlive = agentAndProxyOptions.agentOptions.keepAlive;
+    if (agentAndProxyOptions.httpsAgent) {
+      requestOptions.httpsAgent = agentAndProxyOptions.httpsAgent;
+    } else {
+      requestOptions.httpsAgent = agentAndProxyOptions.agentClass(agentAndProxyOptions.agentOptions);
+      requestOptions.httpsAgent.keepAlive = agentAndProxyOptions.agentOptions.keepAlive;
+    }
     requestOptions.retryDelay = this.constructExponentialBackoffStrategy();
 
     request = axios.request(requestOptions).then(response => {
diff --git a/lib/http/node.js b/lib/http/node.js
index 7d196f21e..6ee040cd3 100644
--- a/lib/http/node.js
+++ b/lib/http/node.js
@@ -41,12 +41,22 @@ function NodeHttpClient(connectionConfig)
 
 Util.inherits(NodeHttpClient, Base);
 
+const defaultHttpsAgentOptions = { keepAlive: true };
+const defaultHttpsAgent = HttpsAgent(defaultHttpsAgentOptions);
+
 /**
  * @inheritDoc
  */
 NodeHttpClient.prototype.getAgentAndProxyOptions = function (url, proxy, mock)
 {
   const isHttps = Url.parse(url).protocol === 'https:';
+
+  if (isHttps && !proxy && !mock) {
+    return {
+      httpsAgent: defaultHttpsAgent,
+    };
+  }
+
   let agentClass;
   let agentOptions = { keepAlive: true };
   let options;
diff --git a/test/integration/testLargeResultSet.js b/test/integration/testLargeResultSet.js
index 9b82518b9..973a1163e 100644
--- a/test/integration/testLargeResultSet.js
+++ b/test/integration/testLargeResultSet.js
@@ -263,13 +263,13 @@ describe('SNOW-743920: Large result set with ~35 chunks', function () {
 
   before(async () => {
     connection = testUtil.createConnection();
+    configureLogger('TRACE');
     await testUtil.connectAsync(connection);
     // setting ROWS_PER_RESULTSET causes invalid, not encoded chunks from GCP
     // await testUtil.executeCmdAsync(connection, 'alter session set ROWS_PER_RESULTSET = 1000000');
     await testUtil.executeCmdAsync(connection, 'alter session set USE_CACHED_RESULT = false;');
     await testUtil.executeCmdAsync(connection, createTable);
     await testUtil.executeCmdAsync(connection, populateData);
-    configureLogger('TRACE');
   });
 
   after(async () => {