Question

According to the node docs the “binary” encoding will be deprecated in future versions.

However I found that my code only works if I create my buffer like this:

var buffer = new Buffer("Special chars like ñ and backspace", "binary");

What is the right way to achieve the same thing?

Answer 1

Fixed it simply by passing the encoding parameter to http.write, like this:

var http = require("http");
var httpReq = http.request(options, callback);
httpReq.write("some string with special characters", "binary");

There are no deprecations in the docs about the write method AFAIK.