Trouble converting a curl command to a request-promise command in nodejs - node.js

Question

So I know that this curl command does work. When I run it, I get the html document that should appear after this login:
curl 'https://login.url'
-H 'Pragma: no-cache'
-H 'Origin: https://blah'
-H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br'
-H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8'
-H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1'
-H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36'
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
-H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8'
-H 'Cache-Control: no-cache'
-H 'Referer: https://blash.jsp'
-H 'Connection: keep-alive'
--data 'Username=mary&Password=<PASSWORD>&Go=Login&Action=Srh-1-1' --compressed ;
This is my attempt at converting it to a node request promise. When I run it, I get some weird characters back.
var url = 'https://login.url';
var headers = {
'Pragma': 'no-cache',
'Origin': 'https://blah',
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests': '1',
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36',
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8',
'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
'Referer': 'https://blash.jsp',
'Connection': 'keep-alive',
}
var data = {
'Username':'mary',
'Password':'<Password>',
'Go':'Login',
'Action':'Srh-1-1'
}
var html = yield request.post({url:url,form:data,headers:headers});
Here's an example of the weird characters:
�X}o�6����4\��b�N��%
What am I doing incorrectly?

Answer 1

You need to tell request that you accept compression by setting the gzip option to true.
Be aware that depending on how/where you get the data, you may get the compressed or uncompressed response. Check the documentation for request for details (search for "compr" on the page).