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Nathan Long
Nathan Long

Reputation: 125882

Why does Chrome ignore local jQuery cookies?

I am using the jQuery Cookie plugin (download and demo and source code with comments) to set and read a cookie. I'm developing the page on my local machine.

The following code will successfully set a cookie in FireFox 3, IE 7, and Safari (PC). But if the browser is Google Chrome AND the page is a local file, it does not work.

$.cookie("nameofcookie", cookievalue, {path: "/", expires: 30});

What I know:

So the cookie fails only for Google Chrome on local files.

Possible causes:

Can anyone confirm this and identify the root cause?

Upvotes: 85

Views: 72120

Answers (9)

Yaroslav Wally
Yaroslav Wally

Reputation: 78

As workaround you can use Tampermonkey with access to local files ( How to include Local htm pages in a Tampermonkey script? ) By that way you will use Tampermonkey's storage, and will be able to set and get your data by functions GM_getValue(data) and GM_setValue(data). I used that for my local HTML page, which i used as customizable alternative to Windows Explorer

But actually localStorage from Yuri's answer works perfect.

Upvotes: 0

paulalexandru
paulalexandru

Reputation: 9530

This did the job for me:

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Right click on your Chrome Icon and select Properties, Shortcut tab and add --enable-file-cookies at the last of the target path.

Upvotes: 6

Elyes Frikha
Elyes Frikha

Reputation: 175

If you use chrominum this is the command to enable local cookies

chromium-browser --enable-file-cookies

It's the same thing for chrome

Hope this help you !

Upvotes: 0

chaoxfu
chaoxfu

Reputation: 47

please check out Cookies & Google Analytics.

$.cookie("nameofcookie", cookievalue, {path: "/", expires: 30});

change this line to 

$.cookie("nameofcookie", cookievalue, {*Path:* "/", expires: 30});

this project working is fine.

Upvotes: 3

Serdar Güner
Serdar Güner

Reputation: 111

i had some problem and solved it this terrible solution. using store and cookie plugin together.

<script src="js/jquery.cookies.2.2.0.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="js/jquery.Storage.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

var is_chrome = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('chrome') > -1;

//get cookies
var helpFlag=(is_chrome)?$.Storage.get("helpFlag"):$.cookies.get("helpFlag");

//set cookies
if(is_chrome)$.Storage.set("helpFlag", "1");else $.cookies.set("helpFlag", "1");

I know that this isnt perfect solution but works for me

Upvotes: 6

Matthew Crumley
Matthew Crumley

Reputation: 102715

Chrome doesn't support cookies for local files (or, like Peter Lyons mentioned, localhost*) unless you start it with the --enable-file-cookies flag. You can read a discussion about it at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=535.

*Chrome does support cookies if you use the local IP address (127.0.0.1) directly. so in the localhost case, that could be an easier workaround.

Upvotes: 97

Tiji
Tiji

Reputation: 31

I had the same issue, please try using the IP address of localhost instead. For e.g "http://127.0.0.1/yoursite/"

Upvotes: 3

Yuri
Yuri

Reputation: 71

For local applications use localStorage in Chrome instead: http://people.w3.org/mike/localstorage.html

Upvotes: 7

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 321578

Another possible cause is the path: "/", since you're not using a normal web URL, / probably doesn't mean much - try without setting the path at all.

Upvotes: 2

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