I'm using Axios to make a secure POST call to an API. This returns an URL within the response headers under 'Location'.

I can see the URL being populated within Chrome's dev tools:

but the response inside JS from Axios (below) doesn't contain this information:

Any advice greatly received!

I'm using Axios to make a secure POST call to an API. This returns an URL within the response headers under 'Location'.

I can see the URL being populated within Chrome's dev tools:

but the response inside JS from Axios (below) doesn't contain this information:

Any advice greatly received!

• javascript
• axios
• response-headers

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• Possible duplicate of Axios get access to response header fields. – Rita Kondratyeva Commented Sep 2, 2017 at 17:31
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Possibly it occurs because you are doing a cors request that doesn't expose location header by default.

You need to add this Cors Configuration to your server side app.

Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Location

as you can see here: https://developer.mozilla/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Expose-Headers