Cross-Domain Cookies

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

Get cookie by name

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

How do I expire a PHP session after 30 minutes?

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

How do I set/unset a cookie with jQuery?

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

jQuery $.cookie is not a function

Here are all the possible problems/solutions I have come across: 1. Download the cookie plugin $.cookie is not a standard jQuery function and the plugin needs to be downloaded here. Make sure to include the appropriate <script> tag where necessary (see next). 2. Include jQuery before the cookie plugin When including the cookie script, make sure to include jQuery … Read more

display variable image using cookies

Have you considered using PHP instead? I feel that it would be a lot more straightfoward. Use setcookie and then simple if and elseif statements to check what the cookie is, and display a corresponding image. This seems a lot simpler than what you’re trying to do with JavaScript, but maybe that’s just because I use PHP … Read more