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oliver williams
Courses Plus Student 74 PointsWhat are buffers useful for?
In what situations do you need to use a buffer? What exactly is a buffer?
For example, the Express Node framework documentation says "When the parameter is a Buffer object, the method sets the Content-Type response header field to “application/octet-stream”, unless previously defined as shown below: res.set('Content-Type', 'text/html'); res.send(new Buffer('<p>some html</p>')); "
When would that be useful?