xmlhttprequest-cookie

Node XMLHttpRequest-Cookie
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Abstract
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This is a Node.js extension module for wrapping
the Node-XMLHttpRequest
module to allow it to handle HTTP Cookies, similar to what a browser
automatically does.

Installation
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Use the Node Package Manager (NPM) to install this module
locally (default) or globally (with option -g):

$ npm install [-g] xmlhttprequest-cookie

API
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The API is fully compatible to the API provided by the underlying
Node-XMLHttpRequest Extension Module,
module (which in turn is compatible to the API defined by the
W3C XMLHttpRequest API Specification.
In addition, the exposed XMLHttpRequest object also has a
debug flag for controlling debug messages and there is a CookieJar object exposed by the module which
grants access to the cookie jar:

var fs = require("fs");
var xhrc = require("./xmlhttprequest-cookie");
var XMLHttpRequest = xhrc.XMLHttpRequest;
var CookieJar = xhrc.CookieJar;

if (fs.existsSync("./sample.db"))
CookieJar.load(fs.readFileSync("./sample.db", { encoding: "utf8" }));

var get = function (url, complete) {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.debug = true;
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
console.log("body length: " + this.responseText.length);
complete(xhr);
}
};
xhr.open("GET", "https://github.com/rse/");
xhr.send();
};

get("https://github.com/rse/", function (xhr) {
console.log("body: " + xhr.responseText.substr(0, 100));
get("https://github.com/rse/", function (xhr) {
console.log("body: " + xhr.responseText.substr(0, 100));
fs.writeFileSync("./sample.db", CookieJar.save(), { encoding: "utf8" });
});
});

See Also
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- Node-XMLHttpRequest Extension Module
- XMLHttpRequest Wikipedia Information
- XMLHttpRequest API Specification

License
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Copyright (c) 2013-2019 Dr. Ralf S. Engelschall (http://engelschall.com/)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
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