react native fetch does not support HTTP streaming APIs

[Schwartz10]

Keeping the ipfs client from reading responses from the IPFS daemon properly.

facebook/react-native#12912

related discussion: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#99

The good news is that the calls are working - network request was made, received, and returned. Just needs to be read appropriately.

Wondering if a polyfill like https://github.com/remy/polyfills/blob/master/EventSource.js would fix this?

[franelj]

Same problem here...

[oed]

For reference: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-http-client/issues/1117

[Schwartz10]

https://github.com/tradle/react-native-http

[Abramovick]

@Schwartz10 I'm also facing the same issue, I'm tryna create a progress bar and show percentage when downloading a file, but i don't to get any readable stream when i call response.body.getReader(). Did you manage to get a workaround by using react-native-http? Thought i should ask instead of wasting my time setting it up and find out it doesn't work...