Node.js: How to send headers with form data using request module?

Solution 1:

I've finally managed to do it. Answer in code snippet below:

var querystring = require('querystring');
var request = require('request');

var form = {
    username: 'usr',
    password: 'pwd',
    opaque: 'opaque',
    logintype: '1'
};

var formData = querystring.stringify(form);
var contentLength = formData.length;

request({
    headers: {
      'Content-Length': contentLength,
      'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    },
    uri: 'http://myUrl',
    body: formData,
    method: 'POST'
  }, function (err, res, body) {
    //it works!
  });

Solution 2:

This should work.

var url = 'http://<your_url_here>';
var headers = { 
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0',
    'Content-Type' : 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' 
};
var form = { username: 'user', password: '', opaque: 'someValue', logintype: '1'};

request.post({ url: url, form: form, headers: headers }, function (e, r, body) {
    // your callback body
});

Solution 3:

I think it's just because you have forgot HTTP METHOD. The default HTTP method of request is GET.

You should add method: 'POST' and your code will work if your backend receive the post method.

var req = require('request');

req.post({
   url: 'someUrl',
   form: { username: 'user', password: '', opaque: 'someValue', logintype: '1'},
   headers: { 
      'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.110 Safari/537.36',
      'Content-Type' : 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' 
   },
   method: 'POST'
  },

  function (e, r, body) {
      console.log(body);
  });