A small document update, all other instances of HTTP header on this
page are written as 'Content-Length'. This also matches casing used
with RFC 2616.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10975
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
`port` was listed as required, but as described in the following
paragraphs, it's actually not.
Also, note that setting `port` to `0` will also cause the OS to assign a
a random port and sync up the docs of both forms.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11025
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Currently, the example throws 'Error: getHostByAddr ENOTFOUND'
The previous example is edited for consistency.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11022
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
The assert docs have some language that suggests that we don't want bug
fixes. We do. Send in bug fixes, please. (Just no new API features.)
We'd love to not have assert in core at all, but that ship has sailed.
It's here to stay. Let's at least make it not have surprising behaviors.
Because we want good things for our users.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11113
Reviewed-By: Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
The stability index is explained elsewhere in the documentation. It is
not necessary to repeat the information about Locked stability index in
the assert documentation.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11174
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
There is a typographical error in the dgram documentation. Reword to
eliminate the error and increase clarity.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11186
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
About path, address and port properties, these are not described though
being also represented as augmented Error objects with added properties.
And also, fix all property descriptions and add type annotations.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10986
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Writable.cork() and Writable.uncork() are meant to be documented
together, but we maintain a lexicographic order. This commit
introduces some links between the two.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7340
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11222
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Remove unneeded words from child_process doc.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11228
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Unify capitalization and spaces and add some info for consistency,
clarity and coherence with sorting in the all.md / _toc.md.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11230
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
V8 moved the Embeder's guide to GitHub.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11336
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Change the Stability Index on `assert` from Locked to Stable.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11304
Ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/11200
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
process.stdout, process.stderr, and console.log() and console.error()
which use the process streams, are usually synchronous. Warn about this,
and clearly describe the conditions under which they are synchronous.
Fix: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/10617
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10884
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
The IPC channel is referenced with the message event too.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11494
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9399
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11548
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Yuta Hiroto <hello@about-hiroppy.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Add documentation for http clientRequest.aborted.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11544
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Modify the `[Writable]` and `[Readable]` links so they point
directly to the right sections in the stream.html doc
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11517
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
* var -> const / let in crypto.md
* fix error in crypto.md code example
* equal -> strictEqual, == -> === in crypto.md
* update estimated outputs in crypto.md
* snake_case -> camelCase in crypto.md examples
* concatenation -> multiline template in crypto
* add missing line break in crypto code example
* add missing link reference in crypto.md
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10909
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This commit clarifies variables in the Filesystem docs.
Prior, the documentation for fs.write() had an ambiguous
remark on the parameters of offset and length.
Therefore, this commit makes explicit that the length parameter
in fs.write() is used to denote the number of bytes, which is
a clearer reference for its usage.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9792
Ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7868
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Add links to the engine classes for the zlib single-call
convenience methods.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10829
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10826
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10828
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Fix the explanation which stated that write() would return false if
highWaterMark is exceeded to correctly state that false is returned
once highWaterMark is reached. See #9247.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10582
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
The note following the http.Server example in the vm documentation
contains misleading language. This commit removes the incorrect
reference to threads.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/10697
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10708
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
The doc specified that writable.write() was advisory only. However,
ignoring that value might lead to memory leaks. This PR specifies that
behavior. Moreover, it adds an example on how to listen for the 'drain'
event correctly.
See: f347dad0b7
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10631
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10519
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Prince John Wesley <princejohnwesley@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com>
A user can change the default curve for ECDH key agreement by
using tls.DEFAULT_ECDH_CURVE.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10264
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Shigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@iij.ad.jp>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9795
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
On some systems, some first bytes of allocated buffer can be zeroed
by default, so the example doesn't work well - the buffer looks zeroed
even before the fill.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9786
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9795
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9795
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9795
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9795
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9795
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9795
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
The `hints` value will be a number. To specify more than one hints,
their corresponding bits have to be set. So bitwise OR should be used
instead of logical OR.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11037
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
`killSignal` option accepts the signal name or signal number as well.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10424
Reviewed-By: Julian Duque <julianduquej@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
In closed environments, self-signed or privately signed certificates are
commonly used, and rejected by Node.js since their root CAs are not
well-known. Allow extending the set of well-known compiled-in CAs via
environment, so they can be set as a matter of policy.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9139
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
__dirname is path.dirname(__filename), but its docs, specifically the
attempt to describe javascript scope in terms of "running" and
"executing" had drifted apart. Rework to describe one as a variation of
the other, move the example, and just describe the names in terms of the
module, and it's local variables rather than the ill defined execution
concepts.
Fix: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5525
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10527
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
child_process.exec*() and child_process.spawn*() (if options.shell is
true) allow trivial arbitrary command execution if code passes
unsanitised user input to it. Add warnings in the docs to make that
clear.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10466
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Change a single word in documentation with a more precise one.
Native is a module compiled in machine "native" code.
A module normally written in a compiled language, not in JavaScript.
Core modules form Node's built-in "core" functionalities.
You don't need to install them. They are included in every Node installation
and documented in https://nodejs.org/api/ .
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10324
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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Franziska Hinkelmann
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QianJin2013
Anna Henningsen
Diego Rodríguez Baquero
Amelia Clarke
Zach Bjornson
Sebastian Van Sande
Jessica Quynh Tran
Nathan Phillip Brink
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