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.
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');