Avoid http dependency in browsers

[blakeembrey]

See #13

[dougwilson]

What happens with "http": false? Will the line http.METHODS still work, or does it need to be altered in some way?

[dougwilson]

i.e. what does require('http') do if the dependency is missing in browserify? Does it throw, return undefined, return {}, or something else?

[jonathanong]

btw https://gist.github.com/defunctzombie/4339901 for the spec

i believe it becomes an "empty" module. https://github.com/substack/node-browserify/blob/master/lib/_empty.js

[blakeembrey]

@dougwilson It returns an empty object in browserify. Haven't checked other CommonJS bundlers. Here's some details: https://github.com/substack/browserify-handbook#browser-field

[dougwilson]

Great, thanks for looking into it @jonathanong and @blakeembrey :) I see the following from the docs:

The above will cause the following to return an empty object into a.

This means we don't actually have to change any of the code in index.js which is why I wanted to confirm :)

[dougwilson]

Published to npm as version 1.1.1