At Social Tables, we have this Koa app that needs to read and set a session cookie. We don’t want to send that cookie over an unencrypted connection, though. We use koa-generic-session for session management. That library uses the cookies library under-the-hood, and luckily, there’s a simple configuration option to avoid sending cookies over an… Continue reading So You Want To Keep Your Cookies Secure
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A Gotcha Using Node.js + Request In a Daemon
I have a Node.js program running as a daemon on a Linux VPS. Periodically, it polls a list of URLs using <a href="https://github.com/mikeal/request">request</a>. When it first starts, everything runs smoothly. But after running for a while, it starts getting 400 errors, and the longer it runs, the more URLs return 400 errors. I could not… Continue reading A Gotcha Using Node.js + Request In a Daemon