I'm creating a desktop app with electron using a private API. When I make request I got the set-cookie in res.headers but I don't know how to store it locally. First I was storing every cookies in one variable so the last set-cookie is overwritting the old one but with further research I found that cookies are not working like that and I need to merge the old and the new cookies response but I don't know how to do that.
Everything I find is only to set a new cookie serverside but never like the browser do.
let cookies
request({
uri: myUrl,
method: 'GET'
}, function (err, res, body) {
if (err) {}
if (res.headers['set-cookie']) {
cookies = res.headers['set-cookie']
}
})
Managed to do it using request and tough-cookie-filestore to persist data
var request = require('request')
const FileCookieStore = require('tough-cookie-filestore');
// NOTE - currently the 'cookies.json' file must already exist!
const j = request.jar(new FileCookieStore('./cookie.json'));
request = request.defaults({ jar : j })