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Don't `require('buffer')`

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start by tracing where http-browserify requires buffer and how the auth parameter is handled. Compare the stated options—documenting that auth is unsupported or using a base64 library—and inspect the existing dependency setup before choosing a direction. Done means the buffer dependency is no longer unnecessarily required and the auth behavior is explicit and covered by the project’s existing checks.

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Description

The buffer implementation is a lot of code and http-browserify does not really need it to work. It is only needed for auth parameter to bas64 encode it.

Could it be document that the auth parameter is not supported or changed to depend on a base64 library or? Eg. base64-js which buffer-browserify depends on.

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