Cookies on localhost with explicit domain

Question

I must be missing some basic thing about cookies. On localhost, when I set a cookie on server side and specify the domain explicitly as localhost (or .localhost). t

Answer 1

The only thing that worked for me was to set Path=/ on the cookie.

Moreover, the default value of a path attribute seems to be different from browsers to browsers although I tested only two of them (Firefox and Chrome).

Chrome tries to set a cookie as is; if path attribute is omitted in Set-Cookie header then it will not be stored and ignored.

However, Firefox stores a cookie even without an explicit path attribute. It just set it with the requested path; my request url was /api/v1/users and the path was set to /api/v1 automatically.

Anyway, both browsers worked when path was set to / even without an explicit domain, ie Domain=localhost or something. So there are some differences in the way how each browser handles cookies.