node.js: form HTTP Authentication with request module fails

Question

I'm trying get page behind the login form with node.js request module.

'username' and 'password' are the names of fields of that form, 'login.php?do=login' is a form action. Doing that I don't get any headers and status codes but only [Error: no auth mechanism defined] message in console.

var request = require('request'),

var options = {
    'auth' : {
    'username':'name',
    'password':'pass'
},
url: 'http://example.com/login.php?do=login',
headers: {
    "User-Agent":"user-agent"
    }
}

request.post(options, function(err,res,body) {
if(err){
    console.log(err);
    return;
}
console.log('headers :', res.headers);
console.log('status code :', res.statusCode);
console.log($('body').text());
});

How could I investigate this? Which way it can be "sniffered" or something like that?

Tamas Hegedus · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-19 11:42:50Z

3

Request module's auth option is to handle basic access authentication. Most likely the page you try to load does not use BAA, but uses a simple form with a post request. To send form data with requests:

var options = {
    url: '...',
    headers: { ... },
    method: 'POST',
    formData: {
        'username':'name',
        'password':'pass'
    }
}

answered Dec 19, 2015 at 11:42

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2 Comments

Pavel L Over a year ago

big thanx. doing this way I get headers and status code : 302 I guess it redirect me where I want. Its strange, but I have not seen nothing about formData object in request docs. Thanx again.

Pavel L Over a year ago

could you drop a sight to this question. tnx.

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