diff --git a/examples/browser.html b/examples/browser.html
index 983ff5c..0b6ab7e 100644
--- a/examples/browser.html
+++ b/examples/browser.html
@@ -39,25 +39,41 @@ var data = unescape(encodeURIComponent(str));
 // For ancient ones - more work needed.
 //
 
-var result = pako.deflate(data);
+var resultAsUint8Array = pako.deflate(data);
+var resultAsBinString  = pako.deflate(data, { to: 'string' });
 
 
 // Send data to server /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
-function send() {
+function sendModern() {
   var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest;
 
-  console.log('Sending data...');
+  console.log('Sending data in modern browsers...');
 
   xhr.open('POST', 'http://localhost:8000/', true);
 
-  // Modern browsers support sending typed array directly
-  xhr.send(result);
+  // We could make this work everywhere, if send data as base64 string.
+  // But that will add 25% of size.
+  xhr.send(resultAsUint8Array);
 
-  setTimeout(send, 2000);
+  setTimeout(sendModern, 2000);
 }
 
-send();
+function sendAncient() {
+  var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest;
+
+  console.log('Sending data in ancient browsers...');
+
+  xhr.open('POST', 'http://localhost:8000/', true);
+  // Kludge to send binary strings as is.
+  xhr.overrideMimeType('text/plain; charset=x-user-defined');
+  xhr.send(resultAsBinString);
+
+  setTimeout(sendAncient, 2000);
+}
+
+sendModern();
+sendAncient();
 
 </script>
 </html>
diff --git a/examples/server.js b/examples/server.js
index 233d99a..781ee64 100644
--- a/examples/server.js
+++ b/examples/server.js
@@ -5,20 +5,6 @@
 const http = require('http');
 const pako = require('../');
 
-////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-// This is the main part of example
-
-function processData(bin) {
-  // Decompress binary content or POST request
-  let uncompressed = pako.inflate(new Uint8Array(bin), { to: 'string' });
-
-  // Convert utf8 -> utf16
-  let decoded = decodeURIComponent(escape(uncompressed));
-
-  console.log(decoded);
-}
-
-////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
   var buf = [];
@@ -26,10 +12,47 @@ const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
   req.on('data', data => buf.push(data));
 
   req.on('end', () => {
+    console.log('--- received request');
+
+    // In ideal world, we should process data as stream to minimize memory use
+    // on big data (and use node's `zlib` inflate).
+    //
+    // But that's just a quick sample to explain data reencoding steps from
+    // browser to server. Feel free to improve.
+
+    // Join all pending chunks.
     let bin = Buffer.concat(buf);
 
-    processData(bin);
+    // Test header to understand if data was sent as raw binary (modern browser)
+    // or string (utf8) format. If utf8 - reencode to binary.
+    //
+    // We could also use base64 encoding for strings on client side, but that
+    // needs more libraries for old browsers (for unsupported `window.btoa()`).
+    //
+    // If you don't need IE8/9 support - just drop this part.
+    if (req.headers['content-type'] &&
+        /text\/plain/i.test(req.headers['content-type']) &&
+        /UTF-8/i.test(req.headers['content-type'])) {
+      console.log('--- data has utf-8 encoding');
 
+      bin = Buffer.from(bin.toString(), 'binary');
+    }
+
+    // Decompress binary content
+    // Note! Can throw error on bad data
+    let uncompressed = pako.inflate(new Uint8Array(bin), { to: 'string' });
+
+    // Convert utf8 -> utf16 (native JavaScript string format)
+    let decoded = decodeURIComponent(escape(uncompressed));
+
+    // Finally, create an object
+    // Note! Can throw error on bad data
+    let obj = JSON.parse(decoded);
+
+    console.log('--- received object is: ', obj);
+
+    // Quick hack to bypass security restrictions when demo html is opened from
+    // file system. Don't do such things on production.
     res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
     res.end('ok');
   });