Synchronous and asynchronous XMLHttpRequest for Node
unxhr is a tiny wrapper of the built-in http client to emulate the browser XMLHttpRequest object.
Important: This library is a fork of XMLHttpRequest.
It was created to be compliant with XMLHttpRequest Level 2.
Highlights
- Dependency free
- Asynchronous and synchronous requests
GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests- Binary data using JavaScript typed arrays
- Follows redirects
- Handles
file:// protocol
Usage
Here's how to include the module in your project and use as the browser-based XHR object.
const XMLHttpRequest = require('unxhr').XMLHttpRequest
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()
Known Issues / Missing Features
For a list of open issues or to report your own visit the github issues page.
- Local file access may have unexpected results for non-UTF8 files
- Synchronous requests don't set headers properly
- Synchronous requests freeze node while waiting for response (But that's what you want, right? Stick with async!).
- Some events are missing, such as abort
- Cookies aren't persisted between requests
- Missing XML support
License
MIT license. See LICENSE for full details.