How do I create a HTTP Client Request with a cookie

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I ve got a node js Connect server that checks the request s cookies   To test it within node  I need a way to write a client request and attach a cookie to it   I understand that HTTP Requests have the  cookie  header for this  but I m not sure how to set it and send -- I also need to send POST data in the same request  so I m currently using danwrong s restler module  but it doesn t seem to let me add that header   Any suggestions on how I can make a request to the server with both a hard-coded cookie and POST data

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The use of http createClient is now deprecated  You can pass Headers in options collection as below   var options          hostname   example com       path    somePath php       method   GET       headers    Cookie    myCookie myvalue      var results        var req   http request options  function res        res on  data   function  chunk            results   results   chunk            TODO              res on  end   function                TODO               req on  error   function e              TODO      req end

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This answer is deprecated  please see  ankitjaininfo s answer below for a more modern solution    Here s how I think you make a POST request with data and a cookie using just the node http library  This example is posting JSON  set your content-type and content-length accordingly if you post different data      NB - node s http client API has changed since this was written    this code is for 0 4 x    for 0 6 5  see http   nodejs org docs v0 6 5 api http html http request  var http   require  http     var data   JSON stringify    important    data      var cookie    something anything   var client   http createClient 80   www example com     var headers          Host    www example com        Cookie   cookie       Content-Type    application json        Content-Length   Buffer byteLength data  utf8       var request   client request  POST        headers       listening to the response is optional  I suppose request on  response   function response      response on  data   function chunk           do what you do         response on  end   function            do what you do              you d also want to listen for errors in production  request write data    request end      What you send in the Cookie value should really depend on what you received from the server  Wikipedia s write-up of this stuff is pretty good  http   en wikipedia org wiki HTTP cookie Cookie attributes

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You can do that using Requestify  a very simple and cool HTTP client I wrote for nodeJS  it support easy use of cookies and it also supports caching   To perform a request with a cookie attached just do the following   var requestify   require  requestify    requestify post  http   google com             cookies            sessionCookie   session-cookie-data

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