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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: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7274
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Jackson Tian <shyvo1987@gmail.com>
v6.x
kimown 9 years ago
committed by Evan Lucas
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      doc/api/http.md

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doc/api/http.md

@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ Example:
```js
var body = 'hello world';
response.writeHead(200, {
'Content-Length': body.length,
'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(body),
'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
```
@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ var options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Content-Length': postData.length
'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(postData)
}
};

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