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## BaseHttpOptions.gracePeriodForClose property

The `gracePeriodForClose` property controls how to stop the server gracefully. Its value is the number of milliseconds to wait before in-flight requests finish when the server is being stopped. With this setting, we also reject new requests from existing keep-alive connections in addition to stopping accepting new connections.

Defaults to Infinity (don't force-close). If you want to immediately destroy all sockets set its value to `0`<!-- -->.

See [stoppable](https://www.npmjs.com/package/stoppable)

<b>Signature:</b>

```typescript
gracePeriodForClose?: number;
```