how to send response to model after autheticate using passport and backbone.js

Question

how to send response to model after autheticate using passport and backbone.js

To authenticate,i have sent post request to server from backbone.js like this

model.save({"email":"sil@gmail.com","password":"silvester"}, {
   successs:function(model,res){

   },
   error:function(){

   }
});

i have received in server side like this

app.post('/login', passport.authenticate('local', {
    successRedirect: '/mainpage',
    failureRedirect: '/login'
}));

in above coding if authentication success i redirect to mainpage and then i have tried to show another one html page like this

app.get('/mainpage',function(req,res) {
    console.log("mainpage");
    res.sendfile('/mainpage.html');
});

after redirect that mainpage i got that console result but i could not redirect to another webpage. how to work it out and then is there anyway to send response only for that post request(above mentioned post request).if i send response to that post request i can easily receive that response within success function and then i can proceed my work but in passport there is only redirect option so it is going to another get request ,from this how can i sent response to frontend ? and where can i receive ?.so how to send response without redirect and how to solve this one.anyone solve this. thank you

node.js
backbone.js
passport.js

Answer 1

model.save will make an ajax request to your server.

I think when you do res.sendfile('/mainpage.html');, it returns the html page in ajax response. Can you check in Developer Console in the browser?

you should check that if the request is ajax then return a 401 http status code and do the redirection on the client side using window.location="/mainpage.html"

Answer 2

it may help you to respond to same post request

app.post('/login', passport.authenticate('local', { failureRedirect: '/login' }), function(req, res) { res.redirect('/mainpage'); });