Download large file with node.js avoiding high memory consumption

Question

I`m trying to create a file downloader as a background service but when a large file is scheduled, it\'s first put in memory and then, at the end of the download the file is

Answer 1

I changed the callback to:

request.addListener('response', function (response) {
        var downloadfile = fs.createWriteStream(filename, {'flags': 'a'});
        sys.puts("File size " + filename + ": " + response.headers['content-length'] + " bytes.");
        response.addListener('data', function (chunk) {
            dlprogress += chunk.length;
            downloadfile.write(chunk, encoding='binary');
        });
        response.addListener("end", function() {
            downloadfile.end();
            sys.puts("Finished downloading " + filename);
        });

    });

This worked perfectly.