Get HTTP-only cookie from Windows 8 JS App

Question

I am making a Javascript Windows 8 app in which the user connects to my server and logs in. Currently, I am trying to use the XmlHttpRequest Object to do so (specifically, WinJS

Answer 1

As it turns out, Windows 8 apps are already able to get HTTP-only cookies with the XMLHttpRequest from the response's header. However, the system handles the cookies automatically in the same way iOS does. This seems very logical, since the coder should not be responsible for cookie handling, the underlying framework does that.