[ Question ] What is the correct way to use proxy if there is an dependency request

[iroy2000]

Not sure if it is a matter of configuration ( or what is the correct way of doing that )

I have a PHP server serving api, and in order to get the response, I need to get a token. If there is no token or an invalid token, it will denied your access. The token is session based.

The sequence is like that

1. get the token ( /api/token )
2. append the token to the proxy request

I'm able to do that when I do that sequence from the browser, but when I used the proxy, I can't get that working.

The following is a middleware for a particular route

// testGetTokenMiddleware.js

export default (req, res, next) => {

    // There are some more code for performance, but following is the "stripped" relevant code.

    request(`${config.get('myUrl')}/get_token`, function(err, response, body) {

      if(err) {
        response.send(404);
      }

      const tokenResponse = JSON.parse(body);

      // I then append the token to my url, but when I debug further, this token is not the same as the token in the "PHP session"
      req.session.phpToken = tokenRsponse.token;

      next();

    });
}

And later on I use that middleware in one of my route

  import testGetTokenMiddleware from 'testGetTokenMiddleware';

  // ... ignore some other code ... blah 

  router.get('/api/test', testGetTokenMiddleware, myProxy);

When I debug the issue, I found out that the token that I got from the middleware is different from the token in the php session. ( Maybe it is passing the wrong Cookie, or the request and proxy is on different sessions ?? ) Wondering what is the best way to solve that issue.

Thanks