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ReadableStream with Axios not working in Safari, but working in Chrome and Firefox

I'm building a chat app with AI API like ChatGPT. I'm streaming back the responses, which works fine in chrome and firefox, but does not in Safari. There I always get this error:

[Log] Error: (handleError.ts, line 8)
AxiosError

cause: TypeError: ReadableByteStreamController is not implemented

column: 28

config: {transitional: {silentJSONParsing: true, forcedJSONParsing: true, clarifyTimeoutError: false}, adapter: "fetch", transformRequest: Array, transformResponse: Array, timeout: 0, …}

line: 1697

message: "ReadableByteStreamController is not implemented"

name: "TypeError"

request: Request

body: ReadableStream {locked: true}

bodyUsed: true

cache: "default"

credentials: "same-origin"

destination: ""

headers: Headers {append: function, delete: function, get: function, has: function, set: function, …}

integrity: ""

keepalive: false

method: "POST"

mode: "cors"

redirect: "follow"

referrer: "about:client"

referrerPolicy: ""

signal: AbortSignal {aborted: false, reason: undefined, onabort: null, throwIfAborted: function, addEventListener: function, …}

url: "http://localhost:3000/conversations/cht_GHyzT4yB35_363xN"

Request Prototyp

sourceURL: "http://localhost:5173/node_modules/.vite/deps/axios.js?v=e4786436"

stack: "AxiosError@http://localhost:5173/node_modules/.vite/deps/axios.js?v=e4786436:375:2…"

AxiosError Prototyp

For my API Calls, I'm using a wrapper around Axios, which makes the streaming request like this:

 async stream(data: any) {
        try {
            console.log("Sending request")
            const response = await instance.post(this.baseUrl, data, { headers: {
                'Accept': 'text/event-stream',
              },
              responseType: 'stream',
              adapter: 'fetch'
             });
            // Handle response data
            console.log("Request sent")
            return { data: response.data, error: null };
        } catch (error) {
            // Handle errors
            const handledError = await handleError(error);
            return { data: null, error: handledError };
        }
    }

With this, the "Request Sent" does not get logged to the console, so the error has to be in the post request.

The request on safari finished quickly, probably with the first chunk of data coming in. in the api logs it says for requests with safari they only take a couple ms to finish.

Answer*

I have found a workaround using the browser native fetch() library, that works fine. Issue seems to be with Axios. 

**EDIT**: This is the working workaround

```javanscript
async *stream(data: any) {
  try {
    console.log('Sending request');
    const response = await fetch(this.baseUrl, {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: {
        Authorization: 'Bearer ' + token
        Accept: 'text/event-stream',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      },
      body: JSON.stringify(data),
    });

    if (response.body) {
      const reader = response.body.getReader();
      const decoder = new TextDecoder('utf-8');

      while (true) {
        const { done, value } = await reader.read();
        if (done) {
          break;
        }
        const chunk = decoder.decode(value, { stream: true });
        yield chunk;
      }
    }

    console.log('Request sent');
  } catch (error) {
    const handledError = await handleError(error);
    yield { error: handledError };
  }
}
```

And then use this function to access the stream: 
```javascript
async function handleStream() {
  const streamGenerator = await api
    .from('conversations')
    .byId(conversation.id)
    .stream({
      input
    });

  for await (const chunk of streamGenerator) {
    if (chunk.error) {
      // Handle error
      console.error(chunk.error);
      break;
    }
    // Process the chunk
    console.log(chunk);
    // Update your UI with the new chunk of data
  }
}
```

Edit Summary*

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Can you show your workaround. Also see developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/… (note it is unsupported in Safari) - though it seems strange that axios would have built on something with a major browser missing.

Darren Cook
– Darren Cook

2024-07-06 11:24:47 +00:00
Commented Jul 6, 2024 at 11:24
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Community
– Community Bot

2024-07-06 23:21:42 +00:00
Commented Jul 6, 2024 at 23:21
@DarrenCook edited the answer. Maybe I did something wrong, but as you linked the docs it is not supported by Safari, and that was always the error that I got.

mikeboe
– mikeboe

2024-07-07 15:39:33 +00:00
Commented Jul 7, 2024 at 15:39

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