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The Cookie
HTTP request header contains stored HTTP cookies previously sent by the server with the {{HTTPHeader("Set-Cookie")}} header.
The Cookie
header might be omitted entirely, if the privacy setting of the browser are set to block them, for example.
Header type | {{Glossary("Request header")}} |
---|---|
{{Glossary("Forbidden header name")}} | yes |
Syntax
Cookie: <cookie-list> Cookie: name=value Cookie: name=value; name2=value2; name3=value3
- <cookie-list>
- A list of name-value pairs in the form of
<cookie-name>=<cookie-value>
. Pairs in the list are separated by a semi-colon and a space (': '
).
Examples
Cookie: PHPSESSID=298zf09hf012fh2; csrftoken=u32t4o3tb3gg43; _gat=1;
Specifications
Specification | Title |
---|---|
{{RFC("6265", "Cookie", "5.4")}} | HTTP State Management Mechanism |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you’d like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/README.md and send us a pull request.
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See also
- {{HTTPHeader("Set-Cookie")}}
- {{domxref("Document.cookie")}}