minor patch to allow reading of strings as buffers

Author: Mark Cavage

lib/ber/reader.js

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Reader.prototype.readEnumeration = function() {
 };
 
 
-Reader.prototype.readString = function(tag) {
+Reader.prototype.readString = function(tag, retbuf) {
   if (!tag)
     tag = ASN1.OctetString;
 
@@ -171,11 +171,10 @@ Reader.prototype.readString = function(tag) {
   if (this.length === 0)
     return '';
 
-  var str =
-    this._buf.slice(this._offset, this._offset + this.length).toString('utf8');
+  var str = this._buf.slice(this._offset, this._offset + this.length);
   this._offset += this.length;
 
-  return str;
+  return retbuf ? str : str.toString('utf8');
 };
 
 

package.json

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "author": "Mark Cavage <mcavage@gmail.com>",
   "name": "asn1",
   "description": "Contains parsers and serializers for ASN.1 (currently BER only)",
-  "version": "0.1.5",
+  "version": "0.1.6",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "git://github.com/mcavage/node-asn1.git"