Alex Potsides

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JavaScript strings are always UTF-16 (e.g. multibyte) so if you have arbitrary binary data that you stuff into a string, and a byte of that data looks like the first...

Thanks loads for opening this, it's really helpful. It's missing a test though - can you please add one to ensure there are no regressions in future. You can crib...

> This also mirrors the Kubo functionality which also requests the data from directly connected peers instead of relying solely on the DHT. It's worth noting this is Helia's default...

> The changing of the order is important here as It sends a want request immediately to its connected peers while also trying to traverse the DHT for the response....

Closing as not needed any more.

If it helps someone, the connection failure log line: ``` libp2p:tcp:socket:error encrypting inbound connection from /ip4/X.X.X.X/tcp/58057 failed UnexpectedEOFError: unexpected end of input ``` ...normally means that the remote closed the...

Actually [server.close says](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/net.html#class-netserver): > Stops the server from accepting new connections and keeps existing connections. So yes, it is necessary to close un-upgraded connections separately, but we should probably just...