Supertest: Unable to set custom headers

[schm1ty1]

I am unable to set a custom header
I have token middleware that will verify a jwt token in the 'x-access-token' header. but doing something like this

request(app)
  .put('/user/' + a_user_id)
  .set('x-access-token', myToken)
  .end(callback);

The 'x-access-token' header is never set

[ghost]

It works, as I'm using it in my everyday :)

PoC: simple php script to show all the headers:

<?php
foreach (getallheaders() as $name => $value) {
    echo "$name: $value\n";
}
?>

and run server: php -S localhost:8000

test.js:

var request = require('../index');


request('http://localhost:8000/')
    .get('test.php')
    .set('x-access-token', 'test-token')
    .end(function(err, res){
        console.log(res.text);
        if (err) throw err;
    });

Output:

Host: localhost:8000
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: node-superagent/1.2.0
x-access-token: Test-token
Connection: close

PS addition, but there is no header in res.headers...

[yeiniel]

I have the same problem with version 1.1.0. Inspecting the headers with a test server is not a solution for me because i'm testing a nodejs http request event handler without running a server. If i do console.log(req.headers) it doesn't print any of the headers set by me using .set (either standard headers or application specific).

[uriStolar]

Any workaround on this problem?

[mikelax]

This seems to be working for me now in supertest 1.2 using superagent 1.8.

Example using mocha with express:

var express = require('express');
var supertest = require('supertest');

var app = express();

app.get('/querystring', function(req, res) {
    console.log(req.headers);
    res.sendStatus(200);
});

describe('Test custom header', function() {
  it.only('sets header', function(done) {
    supertest(app)
      .get('/querystring')
      .set('x-access-token', 'test-token')
      .expect(200)
      .end(function(err, res){
          if (err) return done(err);
          done();
      });
  });
});

Output

{ host: '127.0.0.1:63249',
  'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
  'user-agent': 'node-superagent/1.8.3',
  'x-access-token': 'test-token',
  connection: 'close' }