FIX: Make node-bitcoin compatable with browserify

[brandonrobertz]

I have some isomorphic JS that currently uses node-bitcoin. It works beautifully inside node. When I browserify it, the replacement http module that provides the request object, doesn't have a setTimeout method, which causes a crash. This is a simple two-line fix that allows this library to work in the browser, as well.

[freewil]

wouldn't a better solution be to send a pull request to http-browserify?

[brandonrobertz]

That would be cleaner on this end. I guess I can give that a shot first if you'd prefer. But with 25 open pull requests and an existing issue about setTimeout from 8 months ago with zero comments, I'm not sure how far I'll get.

[brandonrobertz]

I commented on browserify/http-browserify#49 to see there's any interest in a fix for this upstream.

[dcousens]

@freewil it would be cleaner. Alternatively you could use https://github.com/scottcorgan/httpify, a shim for xhr and request; both of which support timeout as an option.

[brandonrobertz]

I'm going to close this ticket and focus on patching http-browserify.