diff --git a/lib/http/request.js b/lib/http/request.js
index 4deb85e3..b1fb065d 100644
--- a/lib/http/request.js
+++ b/lib/http/request.js
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ function Request(options) {
   this.response = null;
   this.statusCode = 0;
   this.headers = null;
-  this.type = 'binary';
+  this.type = 'bin';
   this.redirects = 0;
   this.timeout = null;
   this.finished = false;
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ Request.prototype.finish = function finish(err) {
 
   if (this.options.buffer && this.body) {
     switch (this.type) {
-      case 'binary':
+      case 'bin':
         this.body = Buffer.concat(this.body);
         break;
       case 'json':
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ Request.prototype._onResponse = function _onResponse(response) {
   this.emit('response', response);
 
   if (this.options.buffer) {
-    if (this.type !== 'binary') {
+    if (this.type !== 'bin') {
       this.decoder = new StringDecoder('utf8');
       this.body = '';
     } else {
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ Request.prototype._onEnd = function _onEnd(err) {
  * @param {Object?} options.json
  * @param {Object?} options.form
  * @param {String?} options.type - One of `"json"`,
- * `"form"`, `"text"`, or `"binary"`.
+ * `"form"`, `"text"`, or `"bin"`.
  * @param {String?} options.agent - User agent string.
  * @param {Object?} [options.strictSSL=true] - Whether to accept bad certs.
  * @param {Object?} options.method - HTTP method.
@@ -575,11 +575,11 @@ function parseType(type) {
     case 'text/css':
       return 'css';
     case 'text/plain':
-      return 'text';
+      return 'txt';
     case 'application/octet-stream':
-      return 'binary';
+      return 'bin';
     default:
-      return 'binary';
+      return 'bin';
   }
 }
 
@@ -595,9 +595,9 @@ function getType(type) {
       return 'application/javascript; charset=utf-8';
     case 'css':
       return 'text/css; charset=utf-8';
-    case 'text':
+    case 'txt':
       return 'text/plain; charset=utf-8';
-    case 'binary':
+    case 'bin':
       return 'application/octet-stream';
     default:
       throw new Error('Unknown type: ' + type);
diff --git a/lib/net/pool.js b/lib/net/pool.js
index 65c9c7a2..47a09330 100644
--- a/lib/net/pool.js
+++ b/lib/net/pool.js
@@ -2012,7 +2012,7 @@ Pool.prototype.getIP = co(function* getIP() {
     res = yield request.promise({
       method: 'GET',
       uri: 'http://icanhazip.com',
-      expect: 'text',
+      expect: 'txt',
       timeout: 3000
     });
   } catch (e) {