Move off of `request` to something weaker

Open twolfson opened this issue 11 years ago • 2 comments

request has been great for getting eight-track released. However, with issues like #4 and #18, it feels like it is doing too much for us. We should be using something much weaker; ideally some variant of http-proxy but I am not sure how composable it is.

https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy

Mar 02 '14 02:03 twolfson

Why not just use the builtin http library? It doesnt have the sugar that these things may have, but I think in this case, being closer to the "metal" is better than an unnecessary abstraction.

Mar 20 '14 06:03 zheller

It isn't out of the question but proxying a request is already a solved problem. I would be hesitant to introducing unnecessary/unreusable work.

Mar 20 '14 19:03 twolfson