how to implement curl u option in nodejs

Question

I am trying to implement a curl request in node. In curl you can perform the following POST request:

curl -v https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Accept-Language: en_US" \
  -u "client_id:client_secret" \
  -d "grant_type=client_credentials"

I understand how to set headers and write the data payload using the node http module, but how do i implement -u client_id:client_secret using the http module?

I think this answer describes the process from the server side. http://stackoverflow.com/a/5957629/2966874 — aembke, Mar 20 '14 at 17:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 20 '14 at 18:48

Currently I do not know nodejs. But as you know how to set the Headers -H from nodejs, I believe I can help you now! -u client_id:client_secret is equivalent to the following one:

-H "Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXX"

Here XXXXXXXXXXXXX is the base64 of the string client_id:client_secret. Don't forget the : at the middle of them.

how to implement curl u option in nodejs

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