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Support for webworkers

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start with index.js at the linked line, where http-browserify assumes a normal browser window. Check the worker context described in the issue, where the global object is self, and verify that HTTP requests work there as well as in a normal browser window.

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Description

http-browserify assumes a normal browser window and not a worker, though http requests in a worker are legitimate

inside a webworker the global object is self not window

Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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