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doc: add response.strictContentLength to documentation
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PR-URL: #46627
Refs: #44378
Reviewed-By: Robert Nagy <ronagy@icloud.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <paolo@cowtech.it>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Harshitha K P <harshitha014@gmail.com>
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marco-ippolito authored and danielleadams committed Apr 3, 2023
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For backward compatibility, `res` will only emit `'error'` if there is an
`'error'` listener registered.

Set `Content-Length` header to limit the response body size. Mismatching the
`Content-Length` header value will result in an \[`Error`]\[] being thrown,
Set `Content-Length` header to limit the response body size.
If [`response.strictContentLength`][] is set to `true`, mismatching the
`Content-Length` header value will result in an `Error` being thrown,
identified by `code:` [`'ERR_HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH'`][].

`Content-Length` value should be in bytes, not characters. Use
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After response header was sent to the client, this property indicates the
status message which was sent out.

### `response.strictContentLength`

<!-- YAML
added:
- v18.10.0
- v16.18.0
-->

* {boolean} **Default:** `false`

If set to `true`, Node.js will check whether the `Content-Length`
header value and the size of the body, in bytes, are equal.
Mismatching the `Content-Length` header value will result
in an `Error` being thrown, identified by `code:` [`'ERR_HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH'`][].

### `response.uncork()`

<!-- YAML
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[`response.getHeader()`]: #responsegetheadername
[`response.setHeader()`]: #responsesetheadername-value
[`response.socket`]: #responsesocket
[`response.strictContentLength`]: #responsestrictcontentlength
[`response.writableEnded`]: #responsewritableended
[`response.writableFinished`]: #responsewritablefinished
[`response.write()`]: #responsewritechunk-encoding-callback
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