joyent/node — Issue #1871: Zlib and Streams are not working/making sense on Windows
Author: elis
Created: 2011-10-12 12:29:03+00:00
State: open

I've started working with Node a few weeks ago, and as a Client-Side dev who got sick of working on Server-Side projects a few years ago, I really enjoy working on Server-Side once again.

I'm also working mostly on Windows to develop and them deploy on Linux servers, and Node's support for windows is what really made me start using it for 3 projects right now (I'm a contractor working mainly in Javascript related projects), but the lack of documentation and code example of both Streams and the Zlib is somehow making my work a lot harded.

I'm able to help in both documentation and development of anything that's needed for Node and I'd be happy to do so, but I really don't understand how to use Streams in any context and with Zlib in particular as I've been trying to unpack a gzipped HTML page for a week now, and nothing seems to work.

Please help me with this issue as a lot of "small scale" projects are always somehow related to crawling websites and fetching information from them, and a missing piece in the puzzel makes Node completely unusable for some projects (unless you pair it with something else and bang your head against the wall to make it work).