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request-light
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A lightweight request library intended to be used by VSCode extensions.
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());
});
FAQs
Lightweight request library. Promise based, with proxy support.
The npm package request-light receives a total of 337,664 weekly downloads. As such, request-light popularity was classified as popular.
We found that request-light demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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