fix(webdriver): use undici for requests in Node.js

[christian-bromann]

Proposed changes

This is another attempt to fix the request timeout in webdriver by falling back to undici for making requests in Node.js. This time we will change the interface of the WebdriverRequest class and provide a Node.js version and a cross platform version using native fetch.

This PR introduces the same approach to deliver to different environments, e.g. browser, Node.js, CJS, as Puppeteer does it.

fixes #13778

Types of changes

• Polish (an improvement for an existing feature)
• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation update (improvements to the project's docs)
• Specification changes (updates to WebDriver command specifications)
• Internal updates (everything related to internal scripts, governance documentation and CI files)

Checklist

• I have read the CONTRIBUTING doc
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• I have added the necessary documentation (if appropriate)
• I have added proper type definitions for new commands (if appropriate)

Backport Request

//: # (The current main branch is the development branch for WebdriverIO v9. If your change should be released to the current major version of WebdriverIO (v8), please raise another PR with the same changes against the v8 branch.)

• This change is solely for v9 and doesn't need to be back-ported
• Back-ported PR at #XXXXX

Further comments

Reviewers: @webdriverio/project-committers

[erwinheitzman]

Hi @christian-bromann could you explain a little bit about why we need another tool to retry? I'd think that we could simply have a solution that catches errors and in case of a timeout, puts it in a queue to retry?

[christian-bromann]

@erwinheitzman introducing undici is not to fix anything about the retry mechanism. It fixes two regressions we introduced in v9:

• requests timeout after 5min which is a restriction in Node.js native fetch
• we don't support proxies anymore

The package is very lightweight so I don't think it has any impact on the user.

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