Compute Content-Leght for UTF8 strings

[jvverde]

I had several errors ECONNRESET and after some research I found this suggestion http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18692580/node-js-post-causes-error-socket-hang-up-code-econnreset

And following it I try to change the following lines

    if (typeof this.options.data == 'string') {
      var buffer = new Buffer(this.options.data, this.options.encoding || 'utf8');
      this.options.data = buffer;
      this.headers['Content-Length'] =  this.options.data.length;
    }

To these ones

    if (typeof this.options.data == 'string') {
      var data = this.options.data;
      var buffer = new Buffer(data, this.options.encoding || 'utf8');
      this.options.data = buffer;
      this.headers['Content-Length'] =  Buffer.byteLength(data, this.options.encoding || 'utf8');
    }

and apparently it solves my problems.

[easternbloc]

I would welcome a PR :)

[jvverde]

PR? What that means? Sorry I don't understand

[jvverde]

oh, I see now: A Pull Request. Sorry I can do that now if you want. Please let me know

[easternbloc]

Ah sorry it stands for Pull Request.

If you can see an issue I'd really appreciate if you can write the fix with tests and pull request it.

[easternbloc]

But please write tests also :)

[jvverde]

Sorry. My mistake. The ECONNRESET error is still there and my proposal doesn't solve it. I see now your code doesn't have any problem as you set the Content-Length as the buffer length and not the string length. Sorry about my mistake. However I still got frequently ECONNRESET when I try to burst several request to the same server (iriscouch.com)

[easternbloc]

No worries.

If you can track down why you're getting the ECONNRESETs please raise another issue cheers.