Calculate correct content length for UTF-8 string #4
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By using `Content-Length: request.length`, you risk telling the server the wrong byte‐count. Consider this payload:
```
const response = await client.registerAccount({
Firstname: "Christöffer",
Lastname: "Skeppstedt",
...
});
```
When the string contains an "ö" instead of "o", we have:
- Byte count: 930
- String length: 929
When this request is sent to the Trustly API, it responds back with:
```
{
"name": "JSONRPCError",
"code": 101,
"message": "ERROR_MALFORMED_JSON"
}
```
This is likely because the content length header is incorrect. When instead using `Content-Length: Buffer.byteLength(request, 'utf8')`, the request is accepted.
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By using
Content-Length: request.length, you risk telling the server the wrong byte‐count. Consider this payload:When the string contains an "ö" instead of "o", we have:
When this request is sent to the Trustly API, it responds back with:
{ "name": "JSONRPCError", "code": 101, "message": "ERROR_MALFORMED_JSON" }This is likely because the content length header is incorrect (929 != 930). When instead using
Content-Length: Buffer.byteLength(request, 'utf8'), we get the correct content lenght, and the request is accepted.