Couchdb Vue.js authentication - authentication

Question

I'm trying to move a node/express authentication application over to vue.js. I am able to successfully authenticate getting a 200 code. However, the response returned from couchdb does not contain the "set-cookie" header, which contains the much needed AuthSession token. The code that I am using in my Vue component is:
var reqBody = "name="+user+"&password="+pass;
var reqBodyLength = reqBody.length;
console.log(reqBodyLength);
this.$http.post('http://localhost:5984/_session/', reqBody, {headers: {'Content-Type' : 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Accept' : 'application/json'}}).then(response => {
console.log("response: " + JSON.stringify(response));
console.log("response.headers: " + JSON.stringify(response.headers));
console.log("response.headers.set-cookie: " + JSON.stringify(response.headers["set-cookie"]));
}, response => {
alert('you unauthorized, fool!')
})
Has anyone ever had an issue getting the "set-cookie" header?
Thanks, Tyler

Answer 1

Couch's AuthSession is HttpOnly cookie and therefore can't be accessed through a client side script. But the cookie itself should be set to a browser by that _session query, so all the consequent requests will be authorized.
BTW, /_session also accepts JSON payload, at least in CouchDB 1.6, so the query doesn't have to be in x-www-form-urlencoded form.