Send a set-cookie header to a redirect url in node.js

Question

I am using node.js request module to fetch an id_token from an API. After fetching that id_token I want to send a redirect uri response with a set-cookie header to the redirected url. But I can't quite figure out how to do it.

Here is my code:

app.use("/nodejs-server/retrieveCode", function(req, res) {          var clientID = 'some random string'         var client_Secret = 'another random string'         var code_token = clientID + ":" + client_Secret         var buffer = new Buffer(code_token)         var token = buffer.toString('base64')         var rtoken = "Basic " + token;         var headers = {             'Content-Type': 'application/json',             'Authorization': rtoken         }         var postData = {grant_type: 'authorization_code', code: req.query.code, redirect_uri: 'http://localhost:3000/nodejs-server/retrieveCode'} //Query string data         var options  = {             method: 'POST', //Specify the method             body: postData,             url: 'http://localhost:4000/server/token',             json: true,             headers: headers         }         request(options         , function(error, response, body){             if(error) {                 console.log(error);             } else {                 //send a redirect uri and set-cookie header response              }         }); 

I tried using

res.redirect(302, "http://localhost:9000"); 

and it is able to redirect but I am not able to send the cookie with it as well

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

After lots of trials and errors and googling I was finally able to achieve my goal. In order to send a cookie with an expiry to the the redirect URL, I just added

const expires = body.exp.toUTCString(); res.cookie('id_token', body.id_token, { expires }); res.redirect(302, 'http://localhost:8080');