Node.js - How to set cookies on http request

Question

I've tried this but couldn't get it to work. I make a jQuery ajax request to log in to a Drupal system with xhrFields withCredentials set to true. Server returns the session name and id. So I guess my question is; how would I set those withCredentials with request as it is done with ajax call?

var cookie = request.cookie(app.session.sessionName + '=' + app.session.sessionId);

progress(request(url), {
    header: {
        'Cookie': cookie
    }
})

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Answer 1

Setting the header does not work but I found the solution (which was actually in the docs);

var request = require('request');
var j = request.jar();
var cookie = request.cookie(app.session.sessionName + '=' + app.session.sessionId);
j.setCookie(cookie, url);

request({url: url, jar: j})
//....

Later you can see the cookie on end event;

//var cookie_string = j.getCookieString(url);
//console.log('Cookie: ', cookie_string);