How to authenticate Supertest requests with Passport?

Question

I\'m using Passport.js for authentication (local strategy) and testing with Mocha and Supertest.

How can I create a session and make authenticated requests with Supe

Answer 1

Try this,

  var request=require('supertest');
  var cookie;
  request(app)
  .post('/login')
  .send({ email: "user@gluck.com", password:'password' })
  .end(function(err,res){
    res.should.have.status(200);
    cookie = res.headers['set-cookie'];
    done();        
  });

  //
  // and use the cookie on the next request
  request(app)
  .get('/v1/your/path')
  .set('cookie', cookie)
  .end(function(err,res){  
    res.should.have.status(200);
    done();        
  });