Cookies don't seem to be persisting across requests

[sbrl]

Does got support cookies? If so, how do I pass it a cookie jar? Where do I get a cookie jar? The README doesn't seem to explain this.

Context: I'm switching a project of mine from request to got, which uses a cookie jar (it doesn't appear to work without one). When I finished switching it over, I got a "Not Authorised" response from a url in a sequence of 3 which I should have got a success response instead. This leads me to think that got isn't storing cookies correctly.

[floatdrop]

@sbrl got does not have cookie support out-of-the-box, but it can be easly achieved with cookie module:

let got = require('got');
let cookie = require('cookie');

got('google.com', {
    headers: {
        cookie: cookie.serialize('foo', 'bar')
    }
});

See also:

• tough-cookie
• cookies

[sbrl]

Ok, Thanks! I was hoping that there would be built in support. I'll see what I can do. The problem is that I need to make multiple different requests and save the cookie state after each one in order to login to a particular online service :/

[floatdrop]

@sbrl I'd recommend make all requests to this service through new module (like gh-got or vk-got) and add default jar storage into it.

[sbrl]

Default jar storage? What's that?

[floatdrop]

@sbrl shared instance of tough-cookie for example.

[sbrl]

@floatdrop Right. I don't understand how I can pass a default jar into a gh-got or vk-got instance without doing it manually - in which case I should use vanilla got instead. Sorry for all the questions :(

[FranklinYu]

Bloated request has built-in cookie jar support.

[gajus]

This thread doesn't answer the question how to use tough-cookie with got, e.g. How will the redirects be handled?