Not Receiving Set-Cookie Header with axios post request

Question

I have a PHP Script which successfully returns some simple Headers as well as a set-cookie header if called directly in the browser (or by postman). I can read the response-

Answer 1

This may not apply to your situation, but I had the same problem using axios in this standalone nodejs script.

const config = {
    url: 'https://remote.url/login',
    method: 'post',        
    headers: {
        'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    },
    data: qs.stringify({
        'email': username,
        'password': pwd
    })
}

axios(config).then(res => {
    console.log(res.headers);
}).catch(err => {
    console.log(err);
})

This returned http status 200 without set-cookie in the headers. With curl the header was correctly retrieved, but the status code was 302

After adding the following config options to axios:

maxRedirects: 0,
validateStatus: function (status) {
    return status <= 302; // Reject only if the status code is greater than 302
  },

I received the set-cookie in axios in the response.header.

{
  server: 'nginx/1.16.1',
  date: 'Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:03:16 GMT',
  'content-length': '74',
  connection: 'close',
  location: '/',
  'set-cookie': [
    'cookiename=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; path=/; expires=Sat, 26-Dec-2020 16:03:16 GMT'
  ],
  status: '302',
  'x-frame-options': 'DENY'
}

Without maxRedirects: 0 I received the html of the homepage of the remote url I used.

Without validateStatus I received the set-cookie header in the err.response.headers object.