How to pass headers while doing res.redirect in express js

Question

I am working on express js and I need to redirect to a page which needs authentication. This is my code:

router.get('/ren', function(req, res) {     var username = 'nik',         password = 'abc123',         auth = 'Basic ' + new Buffer(username + ':' + password).toString('base64');      res.redirect('http://localhost:3000/api/oauth2/authorize'); }) 

How can I set headers to this redirect command?

Answer 1

Doesn't express forward the headers automatically if you redirect with 301 (Moved Permanently) or 302 (Found)?

If not, this is how you can set headers:

res.set({   'Authorization': auth }) 

or

res.header('Authorization', auth) 

and then call the

res.redirect('http://localhost:3000/api/oauth2/authorize'); 

Finally, something like that should work:

router.get('/ren', function(req, res) {     var username = 'nik',         password = 'abc123',     auth = "Basic " + new Buffer(username + ":" + password).toString("base64");      res.header('Authorization', auth);      res.redirect('http://localhost:3000/api/oauth2/authorize'); });