Does Axios support Set-Cookie? Is it possible to authenticate through Axios HTTP request?

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Mandakh picture Mandakh · Sep 28, 2018 · Viewed 66.9k times · Source

I'm trying to authenticate express API back-end using Axios HTTP request call. I was able to see 'Set-Cookie' in the response header, but cookie was not set. Is it possible to set cookies through Axios HTTP calls?

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 355
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:59:01 GMT
ETag: W/"163-PAMc87SVHWkdimTJca7oRw"
Set-Cookie: token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9...; Max-Age=3.6; Path=/; Expires=Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:59:04 GMT; HttpOnly
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Answer

Aaron picture Aaron · Sep 28, 2018

Try this out!

axios.get('your_url', {withCredentials: true}); //for GET
axios.post('your_url', data, {withCredentials: true}); //for POST
axios.put('your_url', data, {withCredentials: true}); //for PUT
axios.delete('your_url', data, {withCredentials: true}); //for Delete

For more information on this from the axios docs:

"withCredentials indicates whether or not cross-site Access-Control requests should be made using credentials" - https://github.com/axios/axios

More detail on withCredentials:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/withCredentials

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