sample code for interfacing with proxmox api

index.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ const cookieParser = require("cookie-parser")
 const cors = require("cors");
 const helmet = require("helmet");
 const morgan = require("morgan");
+const https = require("https");
 var package = require("./package.json");
 
 const app = express();
@@ -19,9 +20,58 @@ app.get("/api/version", (req, res) => {
 });
 
 app.get("/api/echo", (req, res) => {
-	res.send({recieved: {body: req.body, cookies: req.cookies}});
+	res.send({body: req.body, cookies: req.cookies});
 });
 
+app.get("/api/auth", (req, res) => {
+	checkAuth(req.cookies, (result) => {
+		res.send(result);
+	});
+});
+
+function checkAuth (cookies, callback, vmpath = null) {
+	if (vmpath) {}
+	else { // if no path is specified, then do a simple authentication
+		requestPVE("/version", "GET", cookies, (result) => {
+			callback(result);
+		});
+	}
+}
+
+function requestPVE (path, method, cookies, callback, body = null, auth = true) {
+	let prms = new URLSearchParams(body);
+	let content = {
+		hostname: "pve.tronnet.net",
+		port: 443,
+		path: `/api2/json${path}`,
+		method: method,
+		mode: "cors",
+		credentials: "include",
+		headers: {
+			"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
+			Cookie: `PVEAuthCookie=${cookies.PVEAuthCookie}; CSRFPreventionToken=${cookies.CSRFPreventionToken}`
+		}
+	}
+	if (method === "POST") {
+		content.body = prms.toString();
+		content.headers.CSRFPreventionToken = cookies.CSRFPreventionToken;
+	}
+	https.request(content, (res) => {
+		let data = "";
+		res.on("data", (d) => {
+			data += d.toString();
+		});
+		res.on("end", () => {
+			try{
+				callback(JSON.parse(data));
+			}
+			catch (e) {
+				callback(e);
+			}
+		});
+	}).on("error", (e) => {callback(e)}).end();
+}
+
 app.listen(80, () => {
 	console.log("listening on port 80");
 });