Though it doesn't address the larger issue, that's definitely a better
approach than forking request. Thanks. =)

I'd still prefer a better solution to the private npm issue though...

Cheers,
Adam Crabtree


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Kevin Swiber <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Adam Crabtree <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Howdy all,
>>
>> We needed to fork forever-agent for some additional functionality, but
>> don't want to have to fork request as well since we have made no updates to
>> it, and would lose semver.
>>
>> Currently, the only way to accomplish this that I know of, would be to
>> run a private npm repo that uses our private version for forever-agent and
>> falls back on the public request, which feels like overkill.
>>
>> Is there a simpler solution?
>>
>
> You could update your calling code to use whatever combination of
> options.agent, options.agentClass, and options.agentOptions makes sense.
>
> https://github.com/mikeal/request/blob/master/request.js#L342-L352
>
> If you wanted it to "just work" with no update to the code that calls
> request, well... that's much trickier.
>
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