request-light

A lightweight request library intended to be used by VSCode extensions.

NodeJS and browser main entry points
proxy support: Use 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());
});