Why is jquery's .ajax() method not sending my session cookie?

Question

After logging in via $.ajax() to a site, I am trying to send a second $.ajax() request to that site - but when I check the headers sent using FireB

Answer 1

Adding my scenario and solution in case it helps someone else. I encountered similar case when using RESTful APIs. My Web server hosting HTML/Script/CSS files and Application Server exposing APIs were hosted on same domain. However the path was different.

web server - mydomain/webpages/abc.html

used abc.js which set cookie named mycookie

app server - mydomain/webapis/servicename.

to which api calls were made

I was expecting the cookie in mydomain/webapis/servicename and tried reading it but it was not being sent. After reading comment from the answer, I checked in browser's development tool that mycookie's path was set to "/webpages" and hence not available in service call to

mydomain/webapis/servicename

So While setting cookie from jquery, this is what I did -

$.cookie("mycookie","mayvalue",{**path:'/'**});