Cannot make axios post request in Node.js to an API endpoint not owned by me

Question

there is the website https://cebcare.ceb.lk/Incognito/DemandMgmtSchedule and in there I can see an API call to https://cebcare.ceb.lk/Incognito/GetLoadSheddingEvents with StartTime and EndTime as form data.

I tried to send post request to above endpoint in Node.js using axios but I get the error AxiosError: unable to verify the first certificate and code: 'UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE'

Then I saw that there are 2 Headers RequestVerificationToken and Cookie . I grabbed them and did a Postman request and got back a response with 200. But in Node.js when I do like

const data = {
  StartTime: startDate,
  EndTime: endDate,
};

const response = await axios.post(URL, data, {
  "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data",
  Cookie:
    ".AspNetCore.Antiforgery.ThOcTlhnrMo=CfDJ8Nr2EC612OFAjHvozOYXtlRQE9n05fuSOD0jEvKY0unmx8QyMYxdCfmotrhzVIKzurnhpkY_MtfAP9cmpR11u8rzt7_xz4IkuWMURwfelg7ymSJ8GaksLVwEgbMIkEDfrvjb5II6EzzTaLA5RiXRDXU",
  RequestVerificationToken:
    "CfDJ8Nr2EC612OFAjHvozOYXtlRBtAUjb36TUpOhI0yuLADjcckB_h1xKJWHDwl0MrqyE4_4pU_YXUkeh5uI66UBXedMcMmihENJ5hpfW_vBgNWZJ-JtliiE4UYvxNJCvvhmGvIWSKWeeqx-llCxrPio9Tw",
});

I get the same error as above

Is there a way to fix this. Or somehow bypass the Cookie and RequestVerificationToken . Or can I hardcode these 2 values and send request?

EDIT I did the following after looking at the linked post

const httpsAgent = new https.Agent({ rejectUnauthorized: false });

const response = await axios.post(URL, data, {
  httpsAgent,
  "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data",
  Cookie:
    ".AspNetCore.Antiforgery.ThOcTlhnrMo=CfDJ8Nr2EC612OFAjHvozOYXtlRQE9n05fuSOD0jEvKY0unmx8QyMYxdCfmotrhzVIKzurnhpkY_MtfAP9cmpR11u8rzt7_xz4IkuWMURwfelg7ymSJ8GaksLVwEgbMIkEDfrvjb5II6EzzTaLA5RiXRDXU",
  RequestVerificationToken:
    "CfDJ8Nr2EC612OFAjHvozOYXtlRBtAUjb36TUpOhI0yuLADjcckB_h1xKJWHDwl0MrqyE4_4pU_YXUkeh5uI66UBXedMcMmihENJ5hpfW_vBgNWZJ-JtliiE4UYvxNJCvvhmGvIWSKWeeqx-llCxrPio9Tw",
});

but now I'm getting Bad Request 400. But in postman Im getting the results for the same Cookie and RequestVerificationToken

Answer 1

The third parameter of the axios post function takes an "Options" object - as for your case to pass the headers you should write like this:

{ 
   headers: {
                'Content-Type:'multipart/form-data',
                Cookie: "",
                RequestVerificationToken: ""
            } 
}