Cookies and local storage serve different purposes. Cookies are primarily for reading server-side, local storage can only be read by the client-side. So the question is, in your app, who needs this data — the client or the server? If it’s your client (your JavaScript), then by all means switch. You’re wasting bandwidth by sending … Read more
Answer You can’t according to the PHP manual: Once the cookies have been set, they can be accessed on the next page load with the $_COOKIE or $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS arrays. This is because cookies are sent in response headers to the browser and the browser must then send them back with the next request. This is … Read more
This is an extremely broad scope question, and a lot of the pros/cons will be contextual to the situation. In all cases, these storage mechanisms will be specific to an individual browser on an individual computer/device. Any requirement to store data on an ongoing basis across sessions will need to involve your application server side … Read more
I have two webapps WebApp1 and WebApp2 in two different domains. I am setting a cookie in WebApp1 in the HttpResponse. How to read the same cookie from HttpRequest in WebApp2? I know it sounds weird because cookies are specific to a given domain, and we can’t access them from different domains; I’ve however heard … Read more
I have a getter to get the value from a cookie. Now I have 2 cookies by the name shares= and by the name obligations= . I want to make this getter only to get the values from the obligations cookie. How do I do this? So the for splits the data into separate values … Read more
I am trying to login to a page and access another link in the page. This is giving me a “405 Not Allowed” error. I checked the post method details using chrome developer tools and could see an api (URL/api/auth). I posted to that URL with the payload and it was working and i was … Read more
You should implement a session timeout of your own. Both options mentioned by others (session.gc_maxlifetime and session.cookie_lifetime) are not reliable. I’ll explain the reasons for that. First: session.gc_maxlifetimesession.gc_maxlifetime specifies the number of seconds after which data will be seen as ‘garbage’ and cleaned up. Garbage collection occurs during session start. But the garbage collector is … Read more
Here are functions you can use for creating and retrieving cookies.
You can use withCredentials property. XMLHttpRequest from a different domain cannot set cookie values for their own domain unless withCredentials is set to true before making the request. Also its possible to force credentials to every Axios requests Or using credentials for some of the Axios requests as the following code
Update April 2019 jQuery isn’t needed for cookie reading/manipulation, so don’t use the original answer below. Go to https://github.com/js-cookie/js-cookie instead, and use the library there that doesn’t depend on jQuery. Basic examples: See the docs on github for details. Before April 2019 (old) See the plugin: You can then do: To delete: Additionally, to set a timeout … Read more