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app=function(req,res)
{
 res.writeHead(200,{'Content-Type':'text/plain'})
 var buffer=new Buffer(100)
 var fs=require('fs')
 fs.open('.'+req.url,'r',function(err,fd){
  fs.fstat(fd,function(err, stats){
   var i=0
   var s=stats.size
   console.log('.'+req.url+' '+s)
   for(i=0;i<s;console.log(i)){
    i=i+buffer.length
    fs.read(fd,buffer,0,buffer.length,i,function(e,l,b){
     res.write(b.toString('utf8',0,l))
     console.log(b.toString('utf8',0,l))
    })
   }
   res.end()
   fs.close(fd)
  })
 })
}
http = require('http')
server = http.createServer(app)
server.listen(8000,"127.0.0.1")
console.log('GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/appwsgi/www/index.htm')

Why does this only show the last 100 bytes multiple times from a 979 bytes file?

Why does chrome browser not show any output?

gert@node:~/http$ node server.js 
GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/appwsgi/www/index.htm
./appwsgi/www/index.htm 979
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
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 </body>
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Answer 1

All of the reads are issued asynchronously using the same buffer (i.e. fs.read returns immediately and the loop continues). By the time the async callback is called the first time, apparently all ten reads have completed (so the buffer contains the results of the last read). Since you called fs.read 10 times, you’ll get called back 10 times. So you get what you see.

The browser shows nothing because you’ve ended the response before the first callback returns.