request module is deprecated

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Description/Steps to reproduce

The request module README says:

Deprecated!

As of Feb 11th 2020, request is fully deprecated. No new changes are expected to land. In fact, none have landed for some time.

For more information about why request is deprecated and possible alternatives refer to
this issue.

Link to reproduction sandbox

$ npm install strong-soap
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 

Expected result

request should be replaced with a different http client library.

[dhmlau]

We switched to use axios in some of the modules in loopback-next. @raymondfeng, do you think it would be a good choice for this module too? Thanks.

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