doc: When did request.end started to support Uint8Array?

[jimmywarting]

...Think i remembered a time when Uint8Array was not supported by the request send/end method...?

I just tried to send a Uint8Array and it did work.
When did it become possible? are other typed arrays/arrayBuffer possible too?

think ☝️ needs to be updated... ref: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v17.x/docs/api/http.html#requestenddata-encoding-callback

Got me thinking: (bit off-topic for this issue but...)

• should it support sending the new Blob class as well - just like browser can send a blob? req.end(new buffer.Blob(...))
• and how about sending a URLSearchParams? req.end(new URLSearchParams(...))

suggestion: default to cast anything to string if not understood by what gets passed in? just like the fetch api?

[lpinca]

When did it become possible?

Probably in version 8.0.0 when support for Uint8Array was added to writable.write().

[nicofrand]

Hi,

my 2 cents: we had a case where it did not fully work when sending a JSON with French text in it, passed through new TextEncoder.encode() and resulted in this error: The "chunk" argument must be of type string or an instance of Buffer. Received an instance of Uint8Array.

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