How to pass a cookie from couchd to the client through node.js

CouchDB has authentication built in through it's _session API (http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Session_API) but I'm having trouble passing the cookie it dishes to the client through node.js

Here's my code (I'm using express.js login is the route):

exports.login = function(req, res){
  var request = require('request');

  var userData = {
    "name":req.body.email,
    "password": req.body.password
  };

  request.post({
    'url': 'http://wamoyo.iriscouch.com/_session',
    'json': userData,
  }, function (error, response, body) {
    if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
      console.log(body);
    }

    request('http://wamoyo.iriscouch.com/_session', function (error, response, body) {
      console.log(response.request.req._headers);
      // Write the Cookie
      res.setHeader("Set-Cookie", response.request.req._headers.cookie);
      return res.render('index', { title: 'BasicChat' })
    });
  });

};

That doesn't seem to work, and I don't know a good way to debug this either. Any help would rock!

My fallback is the use the Jquery Couch plugin like this: (https://wamoyo.iriscouch.com/loginer/_design/Loginer/attachments%2findex.html) But there's a school of reasons why this would suck.

Also, I realize this code isn't efficient yet, I'm just trying to get it to work for now. Sorry if it's messy.