Connecting to a PHP website with Node.js and keep session

问题

I'm making a testbench with Test'em and Mocha (that run on node.js) in order to test a PHP website.

What I want is to request some URL (e.g http://www.my-website/test.php) and get the http status code as well as the content returned.

I'm doing it with the node.js Request module.

The problem is:

I need to be authenticated to access this page, otherwise I'm redirected to the login page.

So, does it exist a way to log in my application through Node.js and keep the session open to be able to chain tests on any pages I want?

I was thinking on get the PHPSESSID on login request if it is possible. Do you thing it is a good direction ?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you, have a nice day :)

Michaël

回答1:

If you set jar: true in your options or use your own custom cookie jar, then request will remember cookies set by the server so that you can keep your session between requests.

回答2:

mscdex thanks for your answer! But unfortunately it did not work for me :/

hyubs thanks to you too.

Finally I carried on to use Mocha + Request.

Basically what I did is:

Connect through a POST request to the login page and get the PHPSESSID cookie that is returned in the response header.
Pass the cookie in the header in the next requests that target a URL where you have to be logged.

Here is my code :

var params = {
    email: 'your_username',
    password: 'your_password'
};
var paramsString = JSON.stringify(params);

// Login to the application
request.post('http://localhost/biings/front-end/rest/auth',
{ 
    headers: {
        "Content-Type" : "application/json",
        'Content-Length' : paramsString.length
    },
    body: paramsString,
},function (error, response, body) {
    // get the PHPSESSID (the last one) that is returned in the header. Sometimes more than one is returned
    var sessionCookie = response.headers['set-cookie'][response.headers['set-cookie'].length - 1];
    sessionCookie = sessionCookie.split(';');
    sessionCookie = sessionCookie[0];
    // Write it in a file (this is a quick trick to access it globally)
    // e.g.: PHPSESSID=ao9a1j0timv9nmuj2ntt363d92 (write it simply as a string)
    fs.writeFile('sessionCookie.txt', sessionCookie, function (err) 
    {
        if(err)
        {
            return console.log(err);
        } 
    });
});

// don't care about this it() function (it's for Mocha)
it("test 1", function(done)
{
    // Get the cookie
    fs.readFile('sessionCookie.txt','utf8', function (err, data) 
    {
        if(err)
        {
             throw err; 
        }
        else
        {
         // Launch a request that includes the cookie in the header
         request.get('http://localhost/biings/front-end/rest/group', 
         {
              headers: {"Cookie" : data},
         }, function (error, response, body) {
             // Check your request reaches the right page
                 expect(response.statusCode).equals(200);
             console.log(body);
                 done();
         });
        }
    }); 
});

It works like a charm for me.

Tell me if you see something wrong or which could be optimized :)

Michaël