[Spike] Test node/electron with the HTTP-API (Windows)

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Investigate how the HTTP API can be used with a nodejs or electron application

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Using named pipes with the request-library always returns 40 Bad request.

With the got-library as follows it works:

const got = require('got');
const options = {
  url: `http://unix://?/pipe/crc-http:/api/status`,
  method: 'GET'
};
function callback(error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    const status = JSON.parse(body);
    console.log(status)
  }
  else {
    console.log(response.statusCode)
    console.log(error)
  }
}
got(options, callback);

node-fetch-library returns 404 Not Found for all calls using a named pipe.

electron-fetch also does not work as expected.

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Concluded; when named pipes are used in combination with HTTP and Electron, it would be suggested to use got.

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From the got-library README

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Electron support has been removed
The Electron net module is not consistent with the Node.js http module. See #899 for more info.

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Which means the useElectronNet: true option is not available anymore. It therefore relies on the nodejs http module.

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https://github.com/gbraad/crc-tray-electron