No way to disable automated response parsing in node

[cmawhorter]

I'm piping the response to a file and have no need to parse it. I'm trying to disable the automatic parsing entirely to avoid the perf. hit but running into some problems.

var request = require('superagent');
request.parse = {};

I thought that would work based on the documentation but it didn't. The reason seems to be because many parsers are hard-coded into the response handler.

This is a workaround but doesn't seem ideal.

// treats everything as binary
request.parse['application/x-www-form-urlencoded'] =
request.parse['application/json'] =
request.parse.text = request.parse.image;

[focusaurus]

If I'm reading the latest code in the v1.6.1 branch correctly, response parsing should be disabled entirely once req.pipe() is called.

Could you confirm what version you are running and retry with the latest release?