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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"stream: socket.setEncoding(null) to receive binary Buffers rather than strings has no effect","articleBody":"- **Version**: v5.8.0\n- **Platform**: Darwin 15.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.3.0: Thu Dec 10 18:40:58 PST 2015; root:xnu-3248.30.4~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64\n- **Subsystem**: stream\n\nI've tried node 5.8.0, 5.10.0 and 4.4.2. I always receive string objects in my data handler unless I manually remove the decoder from the socket readableState:\n\n```\nconst server = net.createServer( ( c ) =\u003e {\n\n    // See https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_readable_setencoding_encoding\n    c.setEncoding( null );\n\n    // Hack that must be added to make this work as expected\n    delete c._readableState.decoder;\n\n    c.on( 'data', ( d ) =\u003e {\n\n        // Expect 'object' but get 'string' without deleting the decoder manually\n        console.log( typeof d );\n    } );\n\n} );\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/inversion","@type":"Person","name":"inversion"},"datePublished":"2016-04-04T11:15:17.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":26},"url":"https://github.com/6038/node/issues/6038"}