Can't get location from response header

Hi,

I’m trying to get the properties location from the response, but superagent doesn’t seem to see it, in spite of the properties being set and visible from the network console. Is it because the reponse body is empty ?

Thanks for your help 😃 Bob

# Extract from my code
.end(function(error, response){
  console.log('response', error, response.headers);
  [...]
})

# Extract from Response Headers from network console :
Date:Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:59:30 GMT
Expires:0
Location:/tmp/project-pic-4730126112057571929.jpg
Pragma:no-cache
Server:nginx/1.6.2

# console.log(response.headers)
Object {
  pragma: "no-cache", 
  cache-control: "no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate", 
  expires: "0", 
  content-type: null
}

[basti1302]

Stumbled upon the same issue just now: Location header in response visible in network tab but not in the response object. I think the answer given by @roshanraj is not quite correct. The location header is indeed stripped away by the browser if this is a CORS request and the CORS headers of the response do not allow the location header to be exposed. The CORS header in question is Access-Control-Expose-Headers. If the response has Access-Control-Expose-Headers:Location, then the browser exposes the Location header just fine and superagent yields its value happily.

So, if you have control over the server side, you just need to set this header. If you are for example using express with the cors middleware you could do something like:

app.use(cors({                                                                 
  exposedHeaders:['Location'],                                                                                                                         
}));

Hope this helps the next person which googles for “superagent response location header” 😉

See also: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/#access-control-expose-headers-response-header

[roshanraj]

Oh thats cool. Thank you for correcting me.