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

None of the suggested fixes worked for me - setting it to null, false, adding two dots, etc - didn't work.

In the end, I just removed the domain from the cookie if it is localhost and that now works for me in Chrome 38.

Previous code (did not work):

document.cookie = encodeURI(key) + '=' + encodeURI(value) + ';domain=.' + document.domain + ';path=/;';

New code (now working):

 if(document.domain === 'localhost') {
        document.cookie = encodeURI(key) + '=' + encodeURI(value) + ';path=/;' ;
    } else {
        document.cookie = encodeURI(key) + '=' + encodeURI(value) + ';domain=.' + document.domain + ';path=/;';
    }