doc: use Buffer.byteLength for Content-Length

As the description in http.md: > If the body contains higher coded characters then Buffer.byteLength() should be used to determine the number of bytes in a given encoding. PR-URL: #7274 Reviewed-By: Brian White <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Jackson Tian <[email protected]>
nodejs · Jul 12, 2016 · b8defaf · b8defaf
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diff --git a/doc/api/http.md b/doc/api/http.md
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ Example:
 ```js
 var body = 'hello world';
 response.writeHead(200, {
-  'Content-Length': body.length,
+  'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(body),
   'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
 ```
 
@@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ var options = {
   method: 'POST',
   headers: {
     'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
-    'Content-Length': postData.length
+    'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(postData)
   }
 };