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Musafiroon
Musafiroon

Reputation: 683

Using max-age in cookies nodejs using res.setheader

I am testing nodejs..

I am using Express.

I want to make a cookie.

the way I know is-

const express =  require("express");
var app =  express();

app.get("/set-cookie",(req,res)=>{
   res.setHeader("set-cookie", "value=true");
});

I want to make a cookie using res.setHeader() with the max-age set to 1 minute without adding more dependencies

I have tried

const express =  require("express");
var app =  express();

app.get("/set-cookie",(req,res)=>{
   res.setHeader("set-cookie", "value=true;MaxAge="1000*60");
});

But it is not setting the max-age to one minute.

What should I do?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9518

Answers (1)

mickl
mickl

Reputation: 49945

You can use res.cookie method to set the maxAge, below code will return a cookie which expires in 1 minute:

app.get("/set-cookie",(req,res)=>{
    res.cookie('cookieName', "value", { maxAge: 60*1000 });
    res.send();
});

If you're using plain HTTP header (setHeader) you must keep in mind that:

Max-Age= Optional Number of seconds until the cookie expires. A zero or negative number will expire the cookie immediately. If both Expires and Max-Age are set, Max-Age has precedence.

so your code should look like this:

app.get("/set-cookie",(req,res)=>{
    res.setHeader("Set-Cookie", "key=value; Max-Age=60");
    res.send();
});

Upvotes: 4

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