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Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 9521

How can cookies be created on client side without javascript?

I know we can create cookies on server side and on client side with javascript but I may lack some expertise.

My problem : I'm trying to pinpoint the creation of a cookie

My situation : I have disabled javascript in my browser and I cleaned all my cookies from this particular website. I did not reload the page. I track the network and when I click on a link, I can see a cookie in the first request. How is it possible?

there is a caption of the very first get request Network sniff

Upvotes: 7

Views: 6414

Answers (2)

Harry Theo
Harry Theo

Reputation: 784

Although it's been some time since you asked this question I'm still going to post this as a reference for anyone in the future.

It is also possible to create cookies with raw html by using the <meta> tags:

<meta http-equiv="set-cookie" content="myCookie=cookie%20content">

check this article for more examples.

UPDATE This feature has been deprecated and browsers are moving away from this method and going towards HTTP headers and the document.cookie as noted by this answer

Upvotes: 4

Stackcraft_noob
Stackcraft_noob

Reputation: 241

You can use PHP

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7) you can use a function called "setcookie"

Syntax: setcookie(name, value, expire, path, domain, secure, httponly);

Just an example

 <?php
$cookie_name = "user";
$cookie_value = "John Doe";
setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, time() + (86400 * 30), "/"); // 86400 = 1 day
?>
<html>
<body>

<?php
if(!isset($_COOKIE[$cookie_name])) {
    echo "Cookie named '" . $cookie_name . "' is not set!";
} else {
    echo "Cookie '" . $cookie_name . "' is set!<br>";
    echo "Value is: " . $_COOKIE[$cookie_name];
}
?>

</body>
</html>

For more info click here!

Upvotes: 0

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