http-request-promise

http-request-promise

Yet another promise-based HTTP request library using jQuery

Why another HTTP request library using jQuery

• If you use simlilar library such axios or popsicle for CORS POST request, you may find the request fails at preflight stage (Google Chrome ver 61.0.3). However, the similar request works fine with jQuery. (e.g. this issue). It's actually not axios or popsicle's fault as jQuery sets Conetent-Type of POST requests to application/x-www-form-urlencoded by default and thus doesn't get preflighted. However, it does prove that it might still be a good choice for client side http requests using jQuery to avoid possible issues.

• jQuery's Promise interface is not compitiable with ES6 Promises. This library warps jQuery's Promise interface with standard ES6 Promise.

• Simplify the error handling. In case error happens, the thrown error will comes with the following propertoes:

  • statusCode: status code of the response
  • statusText: stats text of the response
  • responseText: response body

Installing

npm install http-request-promise