Connecting to a PHP website with Node.js and keep session

Question

I'm making a testbench with Test'em and Mocha (that run on node.js) in order to test a PHP website.

What I want is to request some URL (e.g http://www.my-website/test.php) and get the http status code as well as the content returned.

I'm doing it with the node.js Request module.

The problem is:

I need to be authenticated to access this page, otherwise I'm redirected to the login page.

So, does it exist a way to log in my application through Node.js and keep the session open to be able to chain tests on any pages I want?

I was thinking on get the PHPSESSID on login request if it is possible. Do you thing it is a good direction ?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you, have a nice day :)

Michaël

Answer 1

If you set jar: true in your options or use your own custom cookie jar, then request will remember cookies set by the server so that you can keep your session between requests.