joyent/node — pull request #4539 by isaacs (2013-01-08 22:52:39+00:00)
Title: Readable.prototype.push(chunk | null)

This adds a `readable.push()` method to explicitly injecting chunks of data (or `null` or empty buffer/string for `EOF`) onto the readable stream's read() queue.

This is useful in cases where the data source is a "pushy" source, such as a streams1 style stream or the tcp_wrap net.Socket handles.

Also, this means that the http/net interaction can avoid switching the net socket into old mode.