jasmine-node with request - testing endpoints that redirect don't follow redirects

Question

Even when adding followAllRedirects only changes response.statusCode from 302 to 200 but the body remains the content of the previous response and all the other properties of the response reflect the old one.

Note: I'm doing these in tests using grunt.

Any reason why redirects aren't followed?

Answer 1

It's written in the docs https://github.com/mikeal/request#requestjar:

Cookies are disabled by default (else, they would be used in subsequent requests). To enable cookies, set jar to true (either in defaults or options).

var request = request.defaults({jar: true})
request('http://www.google.com', function () {
  request('http://images.google.com')
})