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index.js

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ var assign = require('object-assign');
 module.exports = function (url, opts, cb) {
 	var redirectCount = 0;
 
-	// Extract got options.
+	// extract own options
 	var encoding = opts.encoding;
 	delete opts.encoding;
 
@@ -59,25 +59,20 @@ module.exports = function (url, opts, cb) {
 			res.once('error', cb);
 
 			var chunks = [];
-			var n = 0;
+			var len = 0;
 
 			res.on('data', function (chunk) {
-				// Add the new chunk to the list.
 				chunks.push(chunk);
-				n += chunk.length;
+				len += chunk.length;
 			});
 
 			res.once('end', function () {
-				// Concatenate all chunks into a single buffer.
-				var data = Buffer.concat(chunks, n);
+				var data = Buffer.concat(chunks, len);
 
-				// Unless the encoding has been explicitely set to `null`,
-				// convert the buffer to a string.
 				if (encoding !== null) {
 					data = data.toString(encoding || 'utf8');
 				}
 
-				// Return the result.
 				cb(null, data, res);
 			});
 		}).once('error', cb);

readme.md

@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ Any of the [`http.request`](http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_op
 
 ##### options.encoding
 
-Type: `string` or `null`
+Type: `string`, `null`  
+Default: `'utf8'`
 
-Encoding to be used on setEncoding of response data. If null, the body is returned as a Buffer.
+Encoding to be used on `setEncoding` of the response data. If null, the body is returned as a Buffer.
 
 ##### callback(err, data, response)