Passing cookies in NodeJs http request

Question

I'm kind of a newbie in NodeJs. I'm trying to make an http request and pass a cookie. I've read all the threads on stackoverflow about it and made up a piece of code that should theoretically work. But, it doesn't.

What I'm trying to do is to send a cookie with the store code to one online-shop which will show me the information about this very shop. If there is no cookie it shows the default div asking to choose a shop.

Here is my code:

var request = require('request'),     http = require('follow-redirects').http,     request = request.defaults({         jar: true     });  var cookieString = 'MC_STORE_ID=66860; expires=' + new Date(new Date().getTime() + 86409000); var str = ''; //var uri = 'example.de';  //var j = request.jar(); var cookie = request.cookie(cookieString); j.setCookie(cookie, uri);  var options = {     hostname: 'example.de',     path: '/pathexample',     method: 'GET',     headers: {         'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11',             'Cookie': cookie,             'Accept': '/',             'Connection': 'keep-alive'     }     //,jar: j };  http.request(options, function (resp) {     resp.setEncoding('utf8');     console.log(resp.headers);     if (resp.statusCode) {         resp.on('data', function (part) {             str += part;         });         resp.on('end', function (part) {             console.log(str);         });          resp.on('error', function (e) {             console.log('Problem with request: ' + e.message);         });     } }).end(str); 

I assume that the cookie will be sent and accepted with my request, but it isn't. I've also tried jar. I commented it out in the code. But, it seems not to work for me either. When I do console.log(resp.headers) I see the original cookies, but not mine. Can someone give me a hint?

The cookie structure is correct. When I run document.cookie=cookie; in google chrome console it is succsessfuly replaced.

Answer 1

In your headers try to put directly the cookieString

headers: {     'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11',     'Cookie': cookieString,     'Accept': '/',     'Connection': 'keep-alive' } 

Answer 2

I had the same issue, @Ricardo helped me to figure out. I have removed the jar key from header

//Set the cookie instead of setting into header var cookie = request.cookie('MC_STORE_ID=66860');   // Set the headers for the request var headers = {     'Content-Type': 'application/json',     'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(post_data),     'Cookie': cookie }; // Configure the request var options = {     url: requestObj["URL"],     method: 'POST',     headers: headers };  // Start the request request(options, function (error, response, body) {     if (!error && response.statusCode === 200) {         // Print out the response body         cb(null, {status: 0, statusDsc: "success", data: body});     } else {         cb(error, {status: 2, statusDsc: JSON.stringify(error)});     } }); 

This is kind of mix between your cookie data and my request function.