How do you stream a response in node.js?

Asked May 10 '14 at 02:21

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This guy is using express and the Node.js documentation suggests that just calling

res.write("foo");

Is writing to a stream. But no matter how many times I write to res it never shows up in my browser until I call res.end(); This post suggests that if you take out the html tags and change the MIME type to text/plain that it might show up incrementally in your browser but that does not work for me.

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I think your browser waits for it to be finished then show it. You can try using `curl` instead and see what happens. – Farid Nouri Neshat May 10 '14 at 02:27
Tried it on fiddler (turn on fiddler -> turn on server -> goto page -> monitor fiddler) and it's the same thing. Nothing happens until the end. – user1873073 May 10 '14 at 02:43
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You should use `curl`, `wireshark` or `tcpdump`. fiddler is browser based, browsers assume there's no response till it's finished. – Farid Nouri Neshat May 10 '14 at 02:45
Worked. http://imgur.com/3nmydUj – user1873073 May 10 '14 at 03:26
possible duplicate of [Node Js problems with response.write](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6068820/node-js-problems-with-response-write) – Farid Nouri Neshat May 10 '14 at 06:33

How do you stream a response in node.js?

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