POST request works in Browser but not on Node

Similar to #318 , I am unable to make a post request with axios on node. But on browser the same piece of code seems to work fine.

const fdata = new FormData();
fdata.append('user', u);
fdata.append('hostnames', n.join(' '));
const host = localStorage.getItem('host');
const port = localStorage.getItem('port');
axios({
  url: `http://${host}:${port}/hosts/remove`,
  method: 'post',
  data: fdata
}).then(response => {
  if (response.status === 200) {
    console.log(response.data);
    console.log('Removed host successfully');
  }
  return null;
}).catch(er => console.log(er));

With unirest it works:

unirest.post(`http://${host}:${port}/hosts/remove`)
.headers({ 'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data' })
.field('user', u)
.field('hostnames', h.join(' '))
.end(response => {
  console.log(response.body);
});

• axios version: v0.16.2
• Environment: node v8.0.0, windows 8.1

[binki]

This might be considered a duplicate of #789.

I was able to use the form-data package with Axios in nodejs. It basically provides a FormData-like interface. You have to be careful to pass the headers it generates to Axios manually, however. For example:

const axios = require('axios');
const FormData = require('form-data');

const form = new FormData();
// Second argument  can take Buffer or Stream (lazily read during the request) too.
// Third argument is filename if you want to simulate a file upload. Otherwise omit.
form.append('field', 'a,b,c', 'blah.csv');
axios.post('http://example.org/endpoint', form, {
  headers: form.getHeaders(),
}).then(result => {
  // Handle result…
  console.log(result.data);
});

[heldrida]

For nodejs users solve by using the querystring lib, as follows:

const querystring = require('querystring')
axios
  .post(URL, querystring.stringify(data))
  .then((response) => ...)
  .catch((error) => ...)