Revisit axios-cookiejar-support

[glynnbird]

In the 10.0.0 dependency bump, axios-cookiejar-support was left at ^1.0.1 when the latest is 2.0.4. Why wasn't this updated in line with the others? Well...

• the syntax for how to implement axios-cookiejar-support has changed - this is not a big deal. Usage is https://github.com/3846masa/axios-cookiejar-support#usage
• but it turns out axios-cookiejar-support doesn't like our use of custom http/https agents. In fact it refuses to run when they are supplied. Error [axios-cookiejar-support does not support for use with other http(s).Agent.].

Others have spotted this and the developer's advise is here https://github.com/3846masa/axios-cookiejar-support/issues/431. In short:

• use http-cookie-agent instead. This is another library by the same developer and is actually a dependency of axios-cookiejar-support
• configure our agents to use ^
• scrap axios-cookiejar-support

Doing it this way may also eliminate this bug at the same time: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-nano/issues/264.

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This seems like it's worth a try, but didn't want to hold up v10 (any more than it was) while fiddling with it.

[fynnlyte]

I think another feasible option would be to remove additional cookie-handling dependencies altogether from nano or to make it optional. Instead, nano could expose its axios - instance and allow to overwrite/ wrap it, as needed.

[aeharding]

May also be worth considering reducing reliance on axios altogether, especially now that the fetch api has landed in node 18. A few years down the road and nano could be a very thin, practically dependency-free library. 🙂

[glynnbird]

@aeharding I was thinking about that. That would be a dream. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait until node 18 is the norm.