request-light

Lightweight request library. Promise based, with proxy support.

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import requestLight from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/request-light';
</script>

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request-light

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A lightweight request library intended to be used by VSCode extensions.

  • NodeJS and browser main entry points
  • proxy support: Use configure or HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY env variables to configure the HTTP proxy addresses.
import { xhr, XHRResponse, getErrorStatusDescription } from 'request-light';

const headers = { 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate' };
return xhr({ url: url, followRedirects: 5, headers }).then(response => {
    return response.responseText;
}, (error: XHRResponse) => {
    throw new Error(error.responseText || getErrorStatusDescription(error.status) || error.toString());
});