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