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unzip-response-es5
Advanced tools
Unzip a HTTP response if needed
Unzips the response from http.request
if it's gzipped/deflated, otherwise just passes it through.
$ npm install --save unzip-response
const http = require('http');
const unzipResponse = require('unzip-response');
http.get('http://sindresorhus.com', res => {
res = unzipResponse(res);
});
MIT © Sindre Sorhus
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Unzip a HTTP response if needed
The npm package unzip-response-es5 receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, unzip-response-es5 popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that unzip-response-es5 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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