xhr.response is undefined on blob/arraybuffer response type

Trying to get this file with your nodejs xmlhttprequest

$ curl -X GET -I http://localhost/test/foo.bin
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:58:51 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.33 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 18:37:07 GMT
ETag: "6-56f02f8230618"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 6
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

using the following code:

var XMLHttpRequest = require("xmlhttprequest").XMLHttpRequest;

        var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest;
        xhr.open("GET", "http://localhost/test/foo.bin");
        xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/octet-stream");
        xhr.responseType = "blob";
        xhr.onreadystatechange = function(e) {
                if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
                        console.log(xhr.response);
                        console.log(xhr.responseText);
                }
        };      
        xhr.send();

Result is undefined for the logline with xhr.response and correct value in xhr.responseText.

Does your module only work for text?

[marlinilram]

Hi @nolash I met the same problem here, do you have any work around now?

[bksubhuti]

i’m just using the node library for file reads now