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Support `res.setEncoding` and non-text response types

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
api

Research direction

The issue names no file, test, or entry point, so first locate the response implementation and existing handling of response data. Compare its behavior with Node's http response and determine how setEncoding and non-text response types should work; done means the browser implementation supports setEncoding with matching response data behavior and tests cover it.

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Description

Response data in http-browserify seems to default to text. In node http it seems to default to buffer. Independent of defaults, the node version supports setEncoding so you can change the type of the response. The browserify version should do the same.

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