how to post data in node.js with content type ='application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

Question

I'm having a problem in posting data in node.js with Content-type: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

var loginArgs = {     data: 'username="xyzzzzz"&"password="abc12345#"',      //data: {     //    'username': "xyzzzzz",     //    'password': "abc12345#",     //},      headers: {             'User-Agent': 'MYAPI',             'Accept': 'application/json',             'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'           }    }; 

And post request is:

client.post("http:/url/rest/login", loginArgs, function(data, response){ console.log(loginArgs);  if (response.statusCode == 200) {     console.log('succesfully logged in, session:', data.msg); } 

It always returns username/password incorrect.

In the rest api it is said that the request body should be:

username='provide user name in url encoded format'&password= "provide password in url encoded format' 

Answer 1

request supports application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data form uploads. For multipart/related refer to the multipart API.

application/x-www-form-urlencoded (URL-Encoded Forms)

URL-encoded forms are simple:

const request = require('request');  request.post('http:/url/rest/login', {   form: {     username: 'xyzzzzz',     password: 'abc12345#'   } }) // or request.post('http:/url/rest/login').form({   username: 'xyzzzzz',   password: 'abc12345#' }) // or request.post({   url: 'http:/url/rest/login',   form: {     username: 'xyzzzzz',     password: 'abc12345#'   } }, function (err, httpResponse, body) { /* ... */ }) 

See: https://github.com/request/request#forms

Or, using request-promise

const rp = require('request-promise'); rp.post('http:/url/rest/login', {   form: {     username: 'xyzzzzz',     password: 'abc12345#'   } }).then(...); 

See: https://github.com/request/request-promise#api-in-detail