It is said that setting cookie through javascript doesn't travel through the HTTP header.What could be the reason behind this?Why javascript cookie dont travel through HTTP header?
document.cookie ='ppkcookie1=testcookie';
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Cookies set by Javascript are sent in the HTTP header, but not at the time when you set the cookie. It will be included in the header the next time you make a request to the server.
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Maizere Pathak.Nepal
But a link here says it wont travel through http header and is non-HTTP method
Guffa
@Maizere: The article is talking about the
set-cookie header which is used by the server to tell the browser to set a cookie. When you set it using Javascript it's set directly in the browser, so it will be sent in the cookie header to inform the server about it.If you fix the syntax error (the string literal is was, until the question was edited, missing its closing '), then it does (although, obviously, not until the next HTTP request is made).
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Maizere Pathak.Nepal
But a link here says it wont travel through http header and is non-HTTP method
Quentin
That is discussing the
Set-Cookie response header, not the Cookie request header. If you set a cookie with JavaScript instead of HTTP then the HTTP header setting the cookie won't be used. That doesn't change what the browser does with cookies (i.e. send them back to the server in each request) one they have been set.