From c0bd104e8cda09e1a9cd2b7fdedd53fa1eca9877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joao Moreno <jomo@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 10:30:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixes #16767

---
 src/vs/platform/request/electron-browser/requestService.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/vs/platform/request/electron-browser/requestService.ts b/src/vs/platform/request/electron-browser/requestService.ts
index dce0923736f..040df206a47 100644
--- a/src/vs/platform/request/electron-browser/requestService.ts
+++ b/src/vs/platform/request/electron-browser/requestService.ts
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export const xhrRequest: IRequestFunction = (options: IRequestOptions): TPromise
 	const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
 	return new TPromise<IRequestContext>((resolve, reject) => {
 
-		xhr.open(options.type, options.url, true, options.user, options.password);
+		xhr.open(options.type || 'GET', options.url, true, options.user, options.password);
 		setRequestHeaders(xhr, options);
 
 		xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';
-- 
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