Owin cookie authentication set-cookie not saving in browser

Question

I am building self-hosted web server on this stack: OWIN Nancy Web Api 2

And I am using Microsoft.Owin.Security.Cookies from Katana for forms-like authentication. I

Answer 1

You could be encounting a similar issue to: Safari doesn't set Cookie but IE / FF does

Try setting the HttpStatusCode to HttpStatusCode.Ok

Some browsers will only accept cookies from a certain response code (like 200, 302).

Answer 2

I resolved the issue. It was because 'domain=localhost'. It seems to 'localhost' isn't valid value for domain parameter.