Just posting this here so other people might find it...

If you're doing HTTP requests in Node, and the remote server responds with
a Content-Length header, but then proceeds to send you content longer than
that, your Node request will emit an error with code HPE_INVALID_CONSTANT.
It's confusing because Node also emits this if the response doesn't start
with "HTTP". Might be useful to make it two errors.

It's really hard to fix, and I did so with an ugly hack, which I won't
document here because it's frickin ugly and mixed in with other fixes to
badly formed http responses that I have to deal with.

But hopefully this at least will serve as a search reference for when
people are super confused by this error message.

Matt.

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