diff --git a/src/updater/request.js b/src/updater/request.js
index 22d9945..0950e5c 100644
--- a/src/updater/request.js
+++ b/src/updater/request.js
@@ -1,160 +1,61 @@
-"use strict";
+const request = require('request');
 
-Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", {
-  value: true
-});
-exports.default = void 0;
-
-var _electron = require("electron");
-
-var _querystring = _interopRequireDefault(require("querystring"));
-
-var _request = _interopRequireDefault(require("request"));
-
-function _interopRequireDefault(obj) { return obj && obj.__esModule ? obj : { default: obj }; }
-
-const DEFAULT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT = 30000;
-
-function makeHTTPResponse({
-  method,
-  url,
-  headers,
-  statusCode,
-  statusMessage
-}, body) {
-  return {
+const nodeRequest = ({ method, url, headers, qs, timeout, body, stream }) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+  const req = request({
     method,
     url,
+    qs,
     headers,
-    statusCode,
-    statusMessage,
+    followAllRedirects: true,
+    encoding: null,
+    timeout: timeout ?? 30000,
     body
-  };
-}
+  });
 
-function makeHTTPStatusError(response) {
-  const err = new Error(`HTTP Error: Status Code ${response.statusCode}`);
-  err.response = response;
-  return err;
-}
+  req.on('response', (response) => {
+    const totalBytes = parseInt(response.headers['content-length'] || 1, 10);
+    let receivedBytes = 0;
+    const chunks = [];
 
-function handleHTTPResponse(resolve, reject, response, stream) {
-  const totalBytes = parseInt(response.headers['content-length'] || 1, 10);
-  let receivedBytes = 0;
-  const chunks = []; // don't stream response if it's a failure
+    const badStatus = response.statusCode >= 300;    
+    if (badStatus) stream = null;
+    
+    response.on('data', chunk => {
+      if (stream != null) {
+        receivedBytes += chunk.length;
+        stream.write(chunk);
+        return stream.emit('progress', {
+          totalBytes,
+          receivedBytes
+        });
+      }
+    
+      chunks.push(chunk);
+    });
 
-  if (response.statusCode >= 300) {
-    stream = null;
-  }
-
-  response.on('data', chunk => {
-    if (stream != null) {
-      receivedBytes += chunk.length;
-      stream.write(chunk);
-      stream.emit('progress', {
-        totalBytes,
-        receivedBytes
+    response.on('end', () => {
+      if (stream != null) {
+        stream.on('finish', () => resolve(response));
+        return stream.end();
+      }
+    
+      if (badStatus) {
+        const err = new Error('HTTP Error: Status Code ' + response.statusCode);
+        err.response = response;
+        return reject(err);
+      }
+    
+      resolve({
+        ...response,
+        body: Buffer.concat(chunks)
       });
-      return;
-    }
-
-    chunks.push(chunk);
-  });
-  response.on('end', () => {
-    if (stream != null) {
-      stream.on('finish', () => resolve(makeHTTPResponse(response, null)));
-      stream.end();
-      return;
-    }
-
-    const res = makeHTTPResponse(response, Buffer.concat(chunks));
-
-    if (res.statusCode >= 300) {
-      reject(makeHTTPStatusError(res));
-      return;
-    }
-
-    resolve(res);
-  });
-}
-
-function nodeRequest({
-  method,
-  url,
-  headers,
-  qs,
-  timeout,
-  body,
-  stream
-}) {
-  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const req = (0, _request.default)({
-      method,
-      url,
-      qs,
-      headers,
-      followAllRedirects: true,
-      encoding: null,
-      timeout: timeout != null ? timeout : DEFAULT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT,
-      body
     });
-    req.on('response', response => handleHTTPResponse(resolve, reject, response, stream));
-    req.on('error', err => reject(err));
-  });
-}
-
-async function electronRequest({
-  method,
-  url,
-  headers,
-  qs,
-  timeout,
-  body,
-  stream
-}) {
-  await _electron.app.whenReady();
-
-  const {
-    net,
-    session
-  } = require('electron');
-
-  const req = net.request({
-    method,
-    url: `${url}${qs != null ? `?${_querystring.default.stringify(qs)}` : ''}`,
-    redirect: 'follow',
-    session: session.defaultSession
   });
 
-  if (headers != null) {
-    for (const headerKey of Object.keys(headers)) {
-      req.setHeader(headerKey, headers[headerKey]);
-    }
-  }
+  req.on('error', err => reject(err));
+});
 
-  if (body != null) {
-    req.write(body, 'utf-8');
-  }
-
-  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const reqTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
-      req.abort();
-      reject(new Error(`network timeout: ${url}`));
-    }, timeout != null ? timeout : DEFAULT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT);
-    req.on('login', (authInfo, callback) => callback());
-    req.on('response', response => {
-      clearTimeout(reqTimeout);
-      handleHTTPResponse(resolve, reject, response, stream);
-    });
-    req.on('error', err => {
-      clearTimeout(reqTimeout);
-      reject(err);
-    });
-    req.end();
-  });
-}
-
-async function requestWithMethod(method, options) {
+function requestWithMethod(method, options) {
   if (typeof options === 'string') {
     options = {
       url: options
@@ -165,24 +66,9 @@ async function requestWithMethod(method, options) {
     method
   };
 
-  log('Request', method, options.url);
-
-  /* try {
-    return await electronRequest(options);
-  } catch (err) {
-    console.log(`Error downloading with electron net: ${err.message}`);
-    console.log('Falling back to node net library..');
-  } */
+  log('Updater > Request', method, options.url);
 
   return nodeRequest(options);
-} // only supports get for now, since retrying is non-idempotent and
-// we'd want to grovel the errors to make sure it's safe to retry
-
-
-for (const method of ['get']) {
-  requestWithMethod[method] = requestWithMethod.bind(null, method.toUpperCase());
 }
 
-var _default = requestWithMethod;
-exports.default = _default;
-module.exports = exports.default;
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+exports.get = requestWithMethod.bind(null, method.toUpperCase());
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