How to request anonymously via Axios?

I want to send a GET request to a url via axios.

It seems the website can recognize me via cookies and is redirecting the url to a page where logged in users are moved to.

I want to send a request as if I were doing it from an incognito tab

I have tried using withCredentials: false config.

This does not seem to have any effect with true or false in my case.

 axios({
        url : url,
        method: 'get',
        maxRedirects: 15,
        headers: {
          'Content-Type': 'text/html',
          'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*',
          'Access-Control-Allow-Methods':'GET',
        },
        withCredentials: false, // without cookies so no login
      })
      .then((res) => {
         console.log("Response", res.data)
      })
      .catch((err) => {
         console.log("Error with fetch: ", err)
      })
    });

• Axios version: 0.19.0
• Environment: Browser

[mamsoudi]

Any updates on the issue, we’re in the same situation, and fetch works perfectly with credentials: 'omit'. Our situation is that we have two applications under the same origin; One uses JWT and the other authenticates using Cookies, and we don’t want to include Cookies in the one with JWT but it just simply doesn’t work.

This gets more problematic since Axios automatically includes Cookies, if we wanted to use Axios for things like Upload requests and showing progress which currently fetch doesn’t support, we’re completely out of options. This basically renders the entire token authentication obsolete in our other app.

I understand that this is a limitation of XHR but does this mean that I’m completely stuck with fetch?

[Doogiemuc]

Had the same problem and found out something new: Axios seems to always add the “Cookie” header when the request goes to the same origin. But it does not automatically add the “Cookie” header when you do a valid CORS request.

Which is strange. And yes the withCredentials configuration variable doesn’t seem to have any effect on this at all.