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diff --git a/node_modules/request/README.md b/node_modules/request/README.md index b91623d2e..9da0eb7d8 100644 --- a/node_modules/request/README.md +++ b/node_modules/request/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +# Deprecated! + +As of Feb 11th 2020, request is fully deprecated. No new changes are expected land. In fact, none have landed for some time. + +For more information about why request is deprecated and possible alternatives refer to +[this issue](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142). # Request - Simplified HTTP client @@ -16,9 +22,9 @@ Request is designed to be the simplest way possible to make http calls. It supports HTTPS and follows redirects by default. ```js -var request = require('request'); +const request = require('request'); request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) { - console.log('error:', error); // Print the error if one occurred + console.error('error:', error); // Print the error if one occurred console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode); // Print the response status code if a response was received console.log('body:', body); // Print the HTML for the Google homepage. }); @@ -86,7 +92,7 @@ To easily handle errors when streaming requests, listen to the `error` event bef request .get('http://mysite.com/doodle.png') .on('error', function(err) { - console.log(err) + console.error(err) }) .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('doodle.png')) ``` @@ -110,7 +116,7 @@ You can also `pipe()` from `http.ServerRequest` instances, as well as to `http.S ```js http.createServer(function (req, resp) { if (req.url === '/doodle.png') { - var x = request('http://mysite.com/doodle.png') + const x = request('http://mysite.com/doodle.png') req.pipe(x) x.pipe(resp) } @@ -126,7 +132,7 @@ req.pipe(request('http://mysite.com/doodle.png')).pipe(resp) Also, none of this new functionality conflicts with requests previous features, it just expands them. ```js -var r = request.defaults({'proxy':'http://localproxy.com'}) +const r = request.defaults({'proxy':'http://localproxy.com'}) http.createServer(function (req, resp) { if (req.url === '/doodle.png') { @@ -152,6 +158,8 @@ Several alternative interfaces are provided by the request team, including: - [`request-promise-native`](https://github.com/request/request-promise-native) (uses native Promises) - [`request-promise-any`](https://github.com/request/request-promise-any) (uses [any-promise](https://www.npmjs.com/package/any-promise) Promises) +Also, [`util.promisify`](https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_promisify_original), which is available from Node.js v8.0 can be used to convert a regular function that takes a callback to return a promise instead. + [back to top](#table-of-contents) @@ -183,7 +191,7 @@ For `multipart/form-data` we use the [form-data](https://github.com/form-data/fo ```js -var formData = { +const formData = { // Pass a simple key-value pair my_field: 'my_value', // Pass data via Buffers @@ -218,8 +226,8 @@ For advanced cases, you can access the form-data object itself via `r.form()`. T ```js // NOTE: Advanced use-case, for normal use see 'formData' usage above -var r = request.post('http://service.com/upload', function optionalCallback(err, httpResponse, body) {...}) -var form = r.form(); +const r = request.post('http://service.com/upload', function optionalCallback(err, httpResponse, body) {...}) +const form = r.form(); form.append('my_field', 'my_value'); form.append('my_buffer', Buffer.from([1, 2, 3])); form.append('custom_file', fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/unicycle.jpg'), {filename: 'unicycle.jpg'}); @@ -314,11 +322,11 @@ detailed in [RFC 1738](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt). Simply pass the `user:password` before the host with an `@` sign: ```js -var username = 'username', +const username = 'username', password = 'password', url = 'http://' + username + ':' + password + '@some.server.com'; -request({url: url}, function (error, response, body) { +request({url}, function (error, response, body) { // Do more stuff with 'body' here }); ``` @@ -347,9 +355,9 @@ of stars and forks for the request repository. This requires a custom `User-Agent` header as well as https. ```js -var request = require('request'); +const request = require('request'); -var options = { +const options = { url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/request/request', headers: { 'User-Agent': 'request' @@ -358,7 +366,7 @@ var options = { function callback(error, response, body) { if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) { - var info = JSON.parse(body); + const info = JSON.parse(body); console.log(info.stargazers_count + " Stars"); console.log(info.forks_count + " Forks"); } @@ -382,7 +390,7 @@ default signing algorithm is ```js // OAuth1.0 - 3-legged server side flow (Twitter example) // step 1 -var qs = require('querystring') +const qs = require('querystring') , oauth = { callback: 'http://mysite.com/callback/' , consumer_key: CONSUMER_KEY @@ -397,14 +405,14 @@ request.post({url:url, oauth:oauth}, function (e, r, body) { // verified with twitter that they are authorizing your app. // step 2 - var req_data = qs.parse(body) - var uri = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate' + const req_data = qs.parse(body) + const uri = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate' + '?' + qs.stringify({oauth_token: req_data.oauth_token}) // redirect the user to the authorize uri // step 3 // after the user is redirected back to your server - var auth_data = qs.parse(body) + const auth_data = qs.parse(body) , oauth = { consumer_key: CONSUMER_KEY , consumer_secret: CONSUMER_SECRET @@ -416,7 +424,7 @@ request.post({url:url, oauth:oauth}, function (e, r, body) { ; request.post({url:url, oauth:oauth}, function (e, r, body) { // ready to make signed requests on behalf of the user - var perm_data = qs.parse(body) + const perm_data = qs.parse(body) , oauth = { consumer_key: CONSUMER_KEY , consumer_secret: CONSUMER_SECRET @@ -605,14 +613,14 @@ TLS/SSL Protocol options, such as `cert`, `key` and `passphrase`, can be set directly in `options` object, in the `agentOptions` property of the `options` object, or even in `https.globalAgent.options`. Keep in mind that, although `agentOptions` allows for a slightly wider range of configurations, the recommended way is via `options` object directly, as using `agentOptions` or `https.globalAgent.options` would not be applied in the same way in proxied environments (as data travels through a TLS connection instead of an http/https agent). ```js -var fs = require('fs') +const fs = require('fs') , path = require('path') , certFile = path.resolve(__dirname, 'ssl/client.crt') , keyFile = path.resolve(__dirname, 'ssl/client.key') , caFile = path.resolve(__dirname, 'ssl/ca.cert.pem') , request = require('request'); -var options = { +const options = { url: 'https://api.some-server.com/', cert: fs.readFileSync(certFile), key: fs.readFileSync(keyFile), @@ -629,13 +637,13 @@ In the example below, we call an API that requires client side SSL certificate (in PEM format) with passphrase protected private key (in PEM format) and disable the SSLv3 protocol: ```js -var fs = require('fs') +const fs = require('fs') , path = require('path') , certFile = path.resolve(__dirname, 'ssl/client.crt') , keyFile = path.resolve(__dirname, 'ssl/client.key') , request = require('request'); -var options = { +const options = { url: 'https://api.some-server.com/', agentOptions: { cert: fs.readFileSync(certFile), @@ -675,6 +683,25 @@ request.get({ }); ``` +The `ca` value can be an array of certificates, in the event you have a private or internal corporate public-key infrastructure hierarchy. For example, if you want to connect to https://api.some-server.com which presents a key chain consisting of: +1. its own public key, which is signed by: +2. an intermediate "Corp Issuing Server", that is in turn signed by: +3. a root CA "Corp Root CA"; + +you can configure your request as follows: + +```js +request.get({ + url: 'https://api.some-server.com/', + agentOptions: { + ca: [ + fs.readFileSync('Corp Issuing Server.pem'), + fs.readFileSync('Corp Root CA.pem') + ] + } +}); +``` + [back to top](#table-of-contents) @@ -687,7 +714,7 @@ The `options.har` property will override the values: `url`, `method`, `qs`, `hea A validation step will check if the HAR Request format matches the latest spec (v1.2) and will skip parsing if not matching. ```js - var request = require('request') + const request = require('request') request({ // will be ignored method: 'GET', @@ -802,11 +829,9 @@ The first argument can be either a `url` or an `options` object. The only requir work around this, either use [`request.defaults`](#requestdefaultsoptions) with your pool options or create the pool object with the `maxSockets` property outside of the loop. -- `timeout` - integer containing the number of milliseconds to wait for a -server to send response headers (and start the response body) before aborting -the request. Note that if the underlying TCP connection cannot be established, -the OS-wide TCP connection timeout will overrule the `timeout` option ([the -default in Linux can be anywhere from 20-120 seconds][linux-timeout]). +- `timeout` - integer containing number of milliseconds, controls two timeouts. + - **Read timeout**: Time to wait for a server to send response headers (and start the response body) before aborting the request. + - **Connection timeout**: Sets the socket to timeout after `timeout` milliseconds of inactivity. Note that increasing the timeout beyond the OS-wide TCP connection timeout will not have any effect ([the default in Linux can be anywhere from 20-120 seconds][linux-timeout]) [linux-timeout]: http://www.sekuda.com/overriding_the_default_linux_kernel_20_second_tcp_socket_connect_timeout @@ -847,7 +872,7 @@ default in Linux can be anywhere from 20-120 seconds][linux-timeout]). - `download`: Duration of HTTP download (`timings.end` - `timings.response`) - `total`: Duration entire HTTP round-trip (`timings.end`) -- `har` - a [HAR 1.2 Request Object](http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/har-12-spec/#request), will be processed from HAR format into options overwriting matching values *(see the [HAR 1.2 section](#support-for-har-1.2) for details)* +- `har` - a [HAR 1.2 Request Object](http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/har-12-spec/#request), will be processed from HAR format into options overwriting matching values *(see the [HAR 1.2 section](#support-for-har-12) for details)* - `callback` - alternatively pass the request's callback in the options object The callback argument gets 3 arguments: @@ -880,13 +905,13 @@ instead, it **returns a wrapper** that has your default settings applied to it. For example: ```js //requests using baseRequest() will set the 'x-token' header -var baseRequest = request.defaults({ +const baseRequest = request.defaults({ headers: {'x-token': 'my-token'} }) //requests using specialRequest() will include the 'x-token' header set in //baseRequest and will also include the 'special' header -var specialRequest = baseRequest.defaults({ +const specialRequest = baseRequest.defaults({ headers: {special: 'special value'} }) ``` @@ -918,6 +943,17 @@ Function that creates a new cookie jar. request.jar() ``` +### response.caseless.get('header-name') + +Function that returns the specified response header field using a [case-insensitive match](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-3.2) + +```js +request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) { + // print the Content-Type header even if the server returned it as 'content-type' (lowercase) + console.log('Content-Type is:', response.caseless.get('Content-Type')); +}); +``` + [back to top](#table-of-contents) @@ -975,7 +1011,7 @@ request.get('http://10.255.255.1', {timeout: 1500}, function(err) { ## Examples: ```js - var request = require('request') + const request = require('request') , rand = Math.floor(Math.random()*100000000).toString() ; request( @@ -1006,7 +1042,7 @@ while the response object is unmodified and will contain compressed data if the server sent a compressed response. ```js - var request = require('request') + const request = require('request') request( { method: 'GET' , uri: 'http://www.google.com' @@ -1034,7 +1070,7 @@ the server sent a compressed response. Cookies are disabled by default (else, they would be used in subsequent requests). To enable cookies, set `jar` to `true` (either in `defaults` or `options`). ```js -var request = request.defaults({jar: true}) +const request = request.defaults({jar: true}) request('http://www.google.com', function () { request('http://images.google.com') }) @@ -1043,8 +1079,8 @@ request('http://www.google.com', function () { To use a custom cookie jar (instead of `request`’s global cookie jar), set `jar` to an instance of `request.jar()` (either in `defaults` or `options`) ```js -var j = request.jar() -var request = request.defaults({jar:j}) +const j = request.jar() +const request = request.defaults({jar:j}) request('http://www.google.com', function () { request('http://images.google.com') }) @@ -1053,9 +1089,9 @@ request('http://www.google.com', function () { OR ```js -var j = request.jar(); -var cookie = request.cookie('key1=value1'); -var url = 'http://www.google.com'; +const j = request.jar(); +const cookie = request.cookie('key1=value1'); +const url = 'http://www.google.com'; j.setCookie(cookie, url); request({url: url, jar: j}, function () { request('http://images.google.com') @@ -1068,9 +1104,9 @@ which supports saving to and restoring from JSON files), pass it as a parameter to `request.jar()`: ```js -var FileCookieStore = require('tough-cookie-filestore'); +const FileCookieStore = require('tough-cookie-filestore'); // NOTE - currently the 'cookies.json' file must already exist! -var j = request.jar(new FileCookieStore('cookies.json')); +const j = request.jar(new FileCookieStore('cookies.json')); request = request.defaults({ jar : j }) request('http://www.google.com', function() { request('http://images.google.com') @@ -1080,16 +1116,16 @@ request('http://www.google.com', function() { The cookie store must be a [`tough-cookie`](https://github.com/SalesforceEng/tough-cookie) store and it must support synchronous operations; see the -[`CookieStore` API docs](https://github.com/SalesforceEng/tough-cookie#cookiestore-api) +[`CookieStore` API docs](https://github.com/SalesforceEng/tough-cookie#api) for details. To inspect your cookie jar after a request: ```js -var j = request.jar() +const j = request.jar() request({url: 'http://www.google.com', jar: j}, function () { - var cookie_string = j.getCookieString(url); // "key1=value1; key2=value2; ..." - var cookies = j.getCookies(url); + const cookie_string = j.getCookieString(url); // "key1=value1; key2=value2; ..." + const cookies = j.getCookies(url); // [{key: 'key1', value: 'value1', domain: "www.google.com", ...}, ...] }) ``` |