diff --git a/website/api.html b/website/api.html index f22c3aeccb2..4b059e4e0af 100644 --- a/website/api.html +++ b/website/api.html @@ -614,6 +614,14 @@
node.http
Cookie
lines.
+ + Node's HTTP abstraction deals with connection handling and message + parsing only. It parses the message into headers and body - but it does + not parse any of the headers or the body. This is left to the user. That + means, for example, that Node does not (and will never) provide API + to access or manipulate Cookies or multi-part bodies. +
+node.http.Server
node.http.ServerResponse
encoding
is "ascii"
.
+
+ + Note: This is the raw HTTP body and has nothing to do with + higher-level multi-part body encodings that may be used. +
res.finish()