Infer responseType from response headers?

[reid3290]

I wanted to use axios to download a image from the server. At the beginning I try to do this:

axios.get(url).then(response=>fs.writeFile(filename, response.data));

But obviously the image downloaded is broken. Then I toke a lot of time to go over the whole document and figure it out I have to set the responseType manully:

axios.get(url,{
    responseType: 'stream'
}).then(response=>response.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(filename)));

Is there any chance that axios can figure reponseType out automatically?
If it can't, I think it's better to make it more clear in the doc(expecially what does stream mean, as well as blob and buffer).

Thx

[evseevnn-zz]

same problem

[realdubb]

This would be awesome!! I'm having an issue where an API sends json on error and binary data on success so I'm having issues with axios automatically encoding the json in arraybuffer despite content-type being application/json - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53230205/change-responsetype-in-axios-based-on-response

[chinesedfan]

Closed in favor of #811.