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Send Http Request with cookie using CookieJar

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Some services are checking the request with cookie to increase the security.

So sometime you make a request successful with Postman, but got 403 (or similar error code) when try to request from your server (or a simple CURL request).

That because Postman auto detect and add cookie if needed for the request.

Using CookieJar will help you do the similar thing:

Install

npm install axios tough-cookie axios-cookiejar-support

Then using a wraper axios to send the request instead.

import axios from 'axios';
import { CookieJar } from 'tough-cookie';
import { wrapper } from 'axios-cookiejar-support';
import { AxiosInstance } from 'axios';


@Injectable()
export class AppService {
  private axiosClient: AxiosInstance;
  constructor() {
    const jar = new CookieJar();
    this.axiosClient = wrapper(axios.create({ jar }));
  }

  async getActiveCode(courseId: string) {
    try {
      await this.axiosClient.get("simple-get-request-to-save-cookie", configs);
      const response = await this.axiosClient.get(url, configs);
      return response.data;
    } catch (error) {
      console.log({ error: error.message });
    }
  }
}

NOTE: You have to make 1 simple request that does not require cookie so it able to get the cookie from that request! Meaning you always have to have 2 requests!!!
(So you have to create your own re-try mechanism to optimize this!)

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