node.js fs.read() example

Question

app=function(req,res)
{
 res.writeHead(200,{'Content-Type':'text/plain'})
 var buffer=new Buffer(100)
 var fs=require('fs')
 fs.open('.'+req.url,'r',function(err,fd){
  fs.fstat(fd,function(err, stats){
   var i=0
   var s=stats.size
   console.log('.'+req.url+' '+s)
   for(i=0;i<s;console.log(i)){
    i=i+buffer.length
    fs.read(fd,buffer,0,buffer.length,i,function(e,l,b){
     res.write(b.toString('utf8',0,l))
     console.log(b.toString('utf8',0,l))
    })
   }
   res.end()
   fs.close(fd)
  })
 })
}
http = require('http')
server = http.createServer(app)
server.listen(8000,"127.0.0.1")
console.log('GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/appwsgi/www/index.htm')

Why does this only show the last 100 bytes multiple times from a 979 bytes file?

Why does chrome browser not show any output?

gert@node:~/http$ node server.js 
GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/appwsgi/www/index.htm
./appwsgi/www/index.htm 979
100
200
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500
600
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800
900
1000
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Answer 1

I know this question is not the newest, but I'm going to chuck this up here because when I was getting issues how to open (and read) a filesystem object, a quick search always seemed to direct me here.

Anyhow, this should help with the OP, and others in the future.

(filepath is the actual filename, including path)

fs.open(filepath, 'r', function(err, fd) {
    fs.fstat(fd, function(err, stats) {
        var bufferSize=stats.size,
            chunkSize=512,
            buffer=new Buffer(bufferSize),
            bytesRead = 0;

        while (bytesRead < bufferSize) {
            if ((bytesRead + chunkSize) > bufferSize) {
                chunkSize = (bufferSize - bytesRead);
            }
            fs.read(fd, buffer, bytesRead, chunkSize, bytesRead);
            bytesRead += chunkSize;
        }
        console.log(buffer.toString('utf8', 0, bufferSize));
        fs.close(fd);
    });
});