Consider replacing request package

[SimonSchick]

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You might want to consider replacing request as it's entering maintenance mode.
request/request#3142
request/request#3143

After a first look it should be relatively easy to replace request with the built-in https library.

[bnoordhuis]

Replacing request has been suggested before in a different context but as long as npm still depends on request, we're likely to keep doing so as well.

node-gyp is normally distributed along with npm and they share a copy of request. That's good because it keeps the download size down.

Thanks for the suggestion though!