Send a set-cookie header to a redirect url in node.js

Question

I am using node.js request module to fetch an id_token from an API. After fetching that id_token I want to send a redirect uri response with a se

Answer 1

After lots of trials and errors and googling I was finally able to achieve my goal. In order to send a cookie with an expiry to the the redirect URL, I just added

s = body.exp.toUTCString();
res.cookie('id_token' ,body.id_token, {expires: s});
res.redirect(302, 'http://localhost:8080');

Answer 2

in express 4.16.3 , you must set

res.cookie()

before

res.redirect()

and it works for me, without error