1. The symbol \n flushesh your buffer and "forces" data sending. It is a 
way for (allmost) any platform to flush the buffer.
2. No. If you are doing a standart HTTP request you allways have to return 
something to the client. Otherwise the client will wait for some time for a 
response. If you don't need any response you can respond with a 
success/error message or simply with a space symbol for example.

09 август 2012, четвъртък, 11:16:04 UTC+3, josh написа:
>
> i noticed that response.write('hello\n'); will send 'hello' to the client. 
> but ommiting the \n does not. is it chrome specific or
> is that node's way to stream part of the response to it's clients?
>
> also, is node server always streams the response back to it's client?
>

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