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Kill Switch Hidden in npm Packages Typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar
Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft.
Now you can gzip with a simple argo middleware!
Usage.
var argo = require("argo"),
gzip = require("argo-gzip");
argo()
.use(gzip)
.target("http://www.endpointAPI.com/");
//Now all request that come in with a "Accept-Encoding:gzip" header will be zipped
//All responses that are from the backend server that are gzipped are handled now as well
FAQs
Gzip package for Argo
The npm package argo-gzip receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, argo-gzip popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that argo-gzip demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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