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Expand Up @@ -25,11 +25,7 @@ HTTP API is very low-level. It deals with stream handling and message
parsing only. It parses a message into headers and body but it does not
parse the actual headers or the body.

Defined headers that allow multiple values are concatenated with a `,`
character, except for the `set-cookie` and `cookie` headers which are
represented as an array of values. Headers such as `content-length`
which can only have a single value are parsed accordingly, and only a
single value is represented on the parsed object.
See [message.headers][] for details on how duplicate headers are handled.

The raw headers as they were received are retained in the `rawHeaders`
property, which is an array of `[key, value, key2, value2, ...]`. For
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* Sending an Authorization header will override using the `auth` option
to compute basic authentication.

[message.headers][]: #http_message_headers
[constructor options]: #http_new_agent_options
[`destroy()`]: #http_agent_destroy
['checkContinue']: #http_event_checkcontinue
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