February 2020 Security Releases
by Sam Roberts, 2020-02-06 Nodejs has increase the strictness of HTTP header parsing. There are no known vulnerabilities addressed, but lax HTTP parsing has historically been a source of problems. Some commonly used sites are known to generate invalid HTTP headers, a --insecure-http-parser CLI option or insecureHTTPParser http option can be used if necessary for interoperability, but is not recommended.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2020-security-releases/#strict-http-header-parsing-none

Bug Error: Parse Error: Invalid header value char

adding the new option for nodejs http.request: insecureHTTPParser for interoperability

see nodejs http.request options docs

see nodejs/node#27711