supertest

I'm trying to write a test for my server side form validation but I keep getting a Forbidden error. It seems that this needs to be a 2 step process. Step 1, acquire the CSRF value from the form. Step 2, use the CSRF value to post to the form handler. However no matter how I try to post I get a forbidden error. --full test: https://github.com/socketwiz/swblog/blob/master/test/contact.js#L57-L100 I've tried changing the following line thusly: https://github.com/socketwiz/swblog/blob/master/test/contact.js#L85 .send({name: 'foo', 'X-CSRF-Token': token}) .set('X-CSRF-Token', token) .set('Cookie',

I need to test an API served via HTTPS with mocha and super test (the certificate are not expired) This is a gist of the server : ... var app = express(); var _options = { key: fs.readFileSync('my-key.pem');, cert: fs.readFileSync('my-cert.pem') }; // Start HTTPS server https.createServer(_options, app).listen(app.get('port'), app.get('ip'), function () { // ok or not logs }); and this is the route to be tested app.get('/hello',function (req, res) { res.json(200); }); I'm trying to test with this code in test/test.js var supertest = require('supertest'), api = supertest('https://localhost:3000

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 Supertest? You should use superagent for that. It is lower level module and used by supertest . Take a look at the section Persisting an agent : var request = require('superagent'); var user1 = request.agent(); user1 .post('http://localhost:4000/signin') .send({ user: 'hunter@hunterloftis.com', password: 'password' }) .end(function(err, res) { // user1 will manage its own cookies // res.redirects contains an Array of redirects }); Now