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Reputation: 119

Header named 'Cookie' not always set using Firefox

I am using ajax to post to an endpoint within a javascript function. Before I post, I set a header with the name 'Cookie' on the request. I have tried setting the header both using beforeSend and using 'headers' (see code below), but the header is only sometimes set. Much of the time the 'Cookie' header is not set. I can tell this by looking at the header in firebug for a Post request. I only have this problem with the header named 'Cookie'. All other headers are consistently set. I can't change the name of the 'Cookie' header to a different value as it is required for the service that I am calling.

$.ajax({
    url:url,
    type:'POST',
    contentType: "application/xml",
    beforeSend: function (request)
        {
            request.setRequestHeader("Cookie", authCookie);
            request.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Authentication id=company.platform.services.org.test,app_secret=aEWEvsddsdddddds0");
        },
    headers: {"Cookie": "abc.etc.authid=" + companyID + ",abc.etc.ticket=" + ticket, "Authorization": "Authentication id=company.platform.services.org.test,app_secret=aEWEvsddsdddddds0"},
    data: order,
    success: createOrderCallback,
    error: createOrderError
});

Is there a better way to set this header to ensure that it will always be set for each request?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 342

Answers (1)

Esailija
Esailija

Reputation: 140230

It is impossible to set the cookie header with XHR http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#the-setrequestheader()-method

The only reason it appeared to work is probably because you had actual cookies the browser sent.

Upvotes: 1

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