browserify / browserify/http-browserify
HEAD request not working on Edge
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Description
When doing a HEAD request with the http library, the javascript just crashes and does not give me any answers.
I tried debugging it myself and found that the library uses fetch to fetch the head. The response of this message is given to IncomingMessage. IncomingMessage assumes that a response has a body. In the case of Edge, the body is just null, because a HEAD request has no body.
Nonetheless, this is accessed in anyway:
```
var reader = response.body.getReader()
function read () {
reader.read().then(function (result) {
if (self._destroyed)
return
if (result.done) {
self.push(null)
return
}
self.push(new Buffer(result.value))
read()
}).catch(function(err) {
self.emit('error', err)
})
}
```
And libraries crashes, causing the HEAD request to hang indefinitely.
To be able to use my own code I added a monkey fix, to temporarily make edge work:
```
window.fetch_old = window.fetch
window.fetch = function () {
var result = window.fetch_old.apply(null, arguments);
result.then_old = result.then;
result.then = function (callback) {
return result.then_old(function(response) {
if(response.body === null){
var body = { "getReader" : function () {
return {
"read" : function (){
return {
"then" : function (callback){
callback({"done":true});
return {"catch" : function(){}};
}
}
}
}
}};
//override body....
var handler = {
get: function(target, name) {
if(name === "body"){
return body;
}
return target[name];
}
};
var response_new = new Proxy(response, handler);
return callback(response_new);
}
return callback(response);
});
}
return result;
};
```
But obviously, it would be great if this could be fixed in the library, instead of my ugly hack.
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