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Support `FormData`

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start by reading the built-in http module's request and body-handling entry points, then compare them with the FormData and XMLHttpRequest example in the issue. Done should mean FormData can be posted through the module while existing request behavior continues to work; the issue does not name a file or test to run.

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Description

Posting FormData can be done using something like:

  var fd = new FormData()
  fd.append('image', file)
  var req = new XMLHttpRequest()
  req.onload = function () {
    callback(null, req.responseText)
  }
  req.onerror = callback
  req.open('post', 'https://api.imgur.com:443/3/image.json')
  req.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Client-ID ' + clientID)
  req.send(fd)

However, I can see know way of handling FormData using the built in http module.

(see https://github.com/substack/node-browserify/issues/439)

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