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darkhorse
darkhorse

Reputation: 8722

Setting a cookie in a Django view

I am trying to set a cookie in a view using the following code.

def index(request):
    resp = HttpResponse("Setting a cookie")
    resp.set_cookie('name', 'value')
    if 'name' in request.COOKIES:
        print "SET"
    else:
        print "NOT SET"
    return render(request, 'myapp/base.html', {})

When the view is loaded, the console prints out NOT SET, which means the cookie was not set. In every tutorial/doc, this seems to be the method used. However, it simply does not work for me :/

Any help? I am using Django 1.9.8, and I am running the app in my local server, or 127.0.0.1:8000.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3995

Answers (1)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599450

You're creating a response and setting a cookie on it, but then you don't actually do anything with that response. The render shortcut creates its own response which is the one actually sent back to the browser.

You should capture the return value from render, and set the cookie on that:

if 'name' in request.COOKIES:
    print "SET"
else:
    print "NOT SET"
resp = render(request, 'myapp/base.html', {})
resp.set_cookie('name', 'value')
return resp

Upvotes: 6

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