Difference between res.setHeader and res.header in node.js

Question

What is the difference between res.setHeader and res.header. Which one should be used for enabling CORS? In some pages res.header is used and some pages res.setHeader is use

Answer 1

Addition to high-voting answers, set is alias header which calls setHeader to set a header. here is the source code:

res.set =
res.header = function header(field, val) {
  if (arguments.length === 2) {
    var value = Array.isArray(val)
      ? val.map(String)
      : String(val);

    // add charset to content-type
    if (field.toLowerCase() === 'content-type') {
      if (Array.isArray(value)) {
        throw new TypeError('Content-Type cannot be set to an Array');
      }
      if (!charsetRegExp.test(value)) {
        var charset = mime.charsets.lookup(value.split(';')[0]);
        if (charset) value += '; charset=' + charset.toLowerCase();
      }
    }

    this.setHeader(field, value);
  } else {
    for (var key in field) {
      this.set(key, field[key]);
    }
  }
  return this;
};

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