{"issue":{"state":"open","pull_request":{"diff_url":null,"html_url":null,"patch_url":null},"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/123cf1049f3fc4d377686673b51dd82f?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","gravatar_id":"123cf1049f3fc4d377686673b51dd82f","url":"https://api.github.com/users/RobertCZ","login":"RobertCZ","id":963320},"milestone":null,"assignee":null,"updated_at":"2011-11-07T22:08:05Z","labels":[],"comments":9,"closed_at":null,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mikeal/request/issues/57","body":"Is it possible to return request body as a Buffer? Needed for page scraping, there are too many non-utf8 html pages out there and once it is returned as a JS string, it is useless. \r\n\r\nOr maybe allow some kind of iconv preprocess callback in options? Thanks","html_url":"https://github.com/mikeal/request/issues/57","title":"Return body as Buffer?","number":57,"id":1379772,"created_at":"2011-08-10T13:50:40Z"},"action":"created","comment":{"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d8eba8dd0e89a0580ec4157681121a79?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","gravatar_id":"d8eba8dd0e89a0580ec4157681121a79","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mikeal","login":"mikeal","id":579},"updated_at":"2011-11-07T22:08:05Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mikeal/request/issues/comments/2660592","body":"currently we keep an array of the buffers and then concat them together in to one buffer that is the total size of the transferred buffers so I don't see a reason for pulling in @substack's node-buffers unless there is a clear performance win. i'm not familiar enough with it to know if there is one.","id":2660592,"created_at":"2011-11-07T22:08:05Z"}}